O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past
William ShakespeareYour cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.
William ShakespeareEre yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallรจd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
William ShakespeareO good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having. . . .
William Shakespeare