EPITAPHs quotes
Do ye not laugh, O, listening friends, when men praise those dead whose virtues they discovered not when living?—It takes much marble to build the sepulchre.—How little of lath and plaster would have repaired the garret!
Some persons make their own epitaphs, and bespeak the reader's goodwill. It were, indeed, to be wished, that every man would early learn in this manner to make his own, and that he would draw it up in terms as flattering as possible, and that he would make it the employment of his whole life to deserve it.
They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time; after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
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