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• Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Temple of Fame, Last line...
• Under the wide an starry sky, Dig my grave and let me lie
  Glad did I live and gladly die, And laid me down with a will, And this be the verse that you grave for me, Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill....
• Under the wide an starry sky, Dig my grave and let me lie
  Glad did I live and gladly die, And laid me down with a will, And this be the verse that you grave for me, Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill....
• I have peppered two of them: two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits.
  I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face...
• I'm the one who's got to die when its time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
  -- Jimi Hendrix...
• Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Ode on Solitude...
• There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die, and we will conquer.
  Follow me. -- General Barnard E. Bee (CSA)...
• Angels and ministers of grace, defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd
  Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee...
• My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
  Clarence Buddinton Kelland...