"For precious friends hid in death's dateless..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
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“The sweat of industry would dry and die,But for the end it works to.”
“Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.”
“How well he's read, to reason against reading!”
More on Death
“She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known”
“To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?”
“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”
More on Friendship
“All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.”
“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.”
“Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.”