I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.