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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

Since I was man,
Such sheets of fire, such bursts of torrid thunder
Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
Remember to have heard. – William Shakespeare

Category:
Thunderstorms
Author
William Shakespeare
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So did this horse excel a common one
In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone.
…What a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back. – William Shakespeare

Category:
Horses, Horse Racing
Author
William Shakespeare
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Other Quotes from
Death
category

Its just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one. – Jeanne Moreau

Category:
Death

Inactivity is death. – Benito Mussolini

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Death

Yes, people pull the trigger – but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. – Eliot Spitzer

Category:
Death

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. – Tecumseh

Category:
Death

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If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues. – Aulis Sallinen

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Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior. – Georg Brandes

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