James Shirley Quotes

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• There is no armour against fate.
• Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
• There is no armor against fate.
• Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
• The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings.…
• How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds!
• Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This…
• Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
• The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.
• Victorious men of earth, no more Proclaim how wide your empires are; Though you bind in every shore And your triumphs reach as far As…

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