"Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.
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“Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”
“In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.”
“And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.”