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Famous Peoples' Epitaphs
William
Shakespeare
Holy
Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, England
Good
friend, for Jesus' sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones. |
Edgar
Allan Poe
Westminster
Presbyterian Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland
Quoth
the Raven nevermore |
Louis
Leakey (physical anthropologist)
Limuru,
Kenya
"Wakaruigi"
"Son of Sparrow Hawk"
You
live on
In the minds you inspired
In the projects you pioneered
In the lives you improved and created
In the hearts that loved you
You cannot die.
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Thomas
Jefferson
Monticello,
Virginia
Author
of the declaration of American independence
Of the state of Virginia for Religious freedom
And father of the University Of Virginia
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Karl
Marx
Highgate
Cemetery, London, England
Workers
of all lands unite, The Philosophers have only interpreted
the world in various ways; the point is to change it. |
Anonymous
Saint
James Cemetery, Toronto, Canada
When
I am dead and in my grave
And all my bones are rotten.
While reading this you'll think of me
When I am long forgotten! |
Abe
Bell (manufactured fireworks)
Boston,
Masachusetts
He
has gone to the only place
Where his own works are excelled |
Here
are some funny examples from around the world:
Here
lies the body of Richard Hind,
Who was neither ingenious, sober or kind. |
Poet
H.J. Daniel's epitaph for his wife:
To
follow you I'm not content
How do I know which way you went? |
Lawyer
Sir John Strange:
Here
lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange. |
Julian
Skaggs of West Virginia:
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