“Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong
Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.”
― The Tempest
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong
Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.”
― The Tempest
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
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