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Quote by William Shakespeare
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. – William Shakespeare

Other quotes by William Shakespeare

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! – William Shakespeare

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Night, Nighttime
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William Shakespeare
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I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. – William Shakespeare

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Glory
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William Shakespeare
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Death
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness. – Miguel de Unamuno

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I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at. – Steven Patrick Morrissey

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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. – Nancy Reagan

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Death

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise. – Stanislav Grof

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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle

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