my favourite EPITAPHS

William Shakespeare
GOOD FREND FOR JESUS SAKE FORBEARE TO
DIGG THE DUST ENCLOASED HEARE.
BLEST BE YE MAN YT SPARES THES STONES AND
CURST BE HE YT MOVES MY BONES
William Shakespeare
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John Brown Dentist
Stranger ! Approach this spot with gravity !John Brown is filling his last cavity.
Epitaph of an unknown dentist
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Benjamin Franklin
The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents worn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here, food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not lost, for it will, as he believed, appear once more In a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by its Author
Benjamin Franklin
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Isaac Newton
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
March 20th 1727
Composed by Alexander Pope
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Seikilos
I am an image in stone.
Seikilos put me here, where I am forever,
the symbol of eternal remembrance.
Shine, as long as you live; do not be sad.
Cause life is surely too short, and time demands its toll.
A Greek grave stele from the first century AD
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