Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Oblivion is not to be hired.
Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.