If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would belie

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave. – Proverb

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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star! – Helen Hunt Jackson

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Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. – Robert Emmet

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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. – Paul Eldridge

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And were an epitaph to be my story Id have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lovers quarrel with the world. – Robert Frost

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