James Shirley Quotes

#1. Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

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#2. There is no armor against fate.

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#3. 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 doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade.

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#4. There is no armour against fate.

James Shirley

#5. Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

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#6. Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

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#7. Death lays his icy hand on kings.

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#8. The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

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#9. When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.

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#10. How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds!

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#11. The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armor against Fate.
Death lays his icy hand on kings ...

James Shirley