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Senator Vrooman (by Ambrose Bierce) - (n/a)
Here lies the bones of Senator Vrooman
Whose head was as hard as the heart of a woman
Whose heart was as soft as the head of a hammer
Dame Fortune inspired him to eminence, damn her!
Fictional future senator used as one of five examples under "Epitaph", from The Devil's Dictionary.

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George Washington
LOOKING INTO THE PORTALS OF ETERNITY TEACHES THAT
THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN IS INSPIRED BY GOD'S WORD;
THEN ALL PREJUDICE OF RACE VANISHES AWAY.
H. G. Wells (himself) - 1866-1946
"I told you so, you damned fools."
Oscar Wilde (himself) -
"And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn."
From The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Hank Williams (his wife) -
"Thank you for the love you gave me
There could be nobody stronger
Thank you for many beautiful songs
They will live long, and longer
Christopher Wren (unknown) -
LECTOR, SI MONUMENTUM REQUIRIS CIRCUMSPICE
(Reader, if you seek his monument look around)
Wren is buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London, which he designed.
Virginia Woolf (herself) -
"Against you I will fling myself
unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"

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W. B. Yeats (by himself) -
"Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!"
This epitaph is from Under Ben Bulben, one of Yeats' last poems. The last section of Under Ben Bulben describes Yeats' resting-place-to-be.

Epithaphs in fiction
Scrooge McDuck
Fortuna favet fortibus
Translation: "Fortune favours the brave"
Note: appears on an (unpublished) drawing by author Keno Don Rosa
"A Jacobite's Epitaph" (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
To my true king I offered free from stain
Faith and courage (vain faith and courage vain).
For him I threw lands, honours, wealth away
And one dear hope more prized than they.
For him I languished in a foreign clime
Grey-haired with sorrow in my manhood's prime.
Beheld each night my home in fevered sleep,
Each morn awoke from the dream to weep...
'Til God, who saw me tried to sorely, gave
The resting place I asked; and early grave.
O thou, whom chance leads to this nameless stone
From that proud country which once was mine own,
From those white cliffs which I ne'er again may see,
By that dear language which I spake like thee...
Stop all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Here lies a knave,
Where in the grave,
His first good deed,
Was feed the weed.

Unknowns
Unknown Canadian WWI Memorial (Rudyard Kipling)
"From little towns in a far land we came
To save our honour and a world aflame.
By little towns in a far land we sleep
And trust the world we won for you to keep."
[Unknown] - Ireland
"Tears cannot
Restore her:
Therefore I weep."
[Unknown] - Fictional
"Died 102 years old. Only the good die young."
[Unknown] adult's grave in Rome, Italy
"Quello che siete fummo, quello che siamo sarete"
Translation: "What you are we were and what we are you will become"
[Unknown] child's grave in Miami, FL (by Edmund Waller)
"What small amount of time they share
Who are so wondrous sweet and fair"
From Waller's poem "Go, Lovely Rose"
Unknown British Soldier, in Wesminster Cathedral
BENEATH THIS STONE RESTS THE BODY
OF A BRITISH WARRIOR
UNKNOWN BY NAME OR RANK
BROUGHT FROM FRANCE TO LIE AMONG
THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS OF THE LAND
AND BURIED HERE ON ARMISTICE DAY
11 NOV: 1920, IN THE PRESENCE OF
HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V
HIS MINISTERS OF STATE
THE CHIEFS OF HIS FORCES
AND A VAST CONCOURSE OF THE NATION

THUS ARE COMMEMORATED THE MANY
MULTITUDES WHO DURING THE GREAT
WAR OF 1914-1918 GAVE THE MOST THAT
MAN CAN GIVE LIFE ITSELF
FOR GOD
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
FOR LOVED ONES HOME AND EMPIRE
FOR THE SACRED CAUSE OF JUSTICE AND
THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD

THEY BURIED HIM AMONG THE KINGS BECAUSE HE
HAD DONE GOOD TOWARD GOD AND TOWARD
HIS HOUSE
Unknown Infant (unknown author) -
"Since I am so quickly done for
I wonder what I was begun for?"
Unknown Infant (unknown author) - Vermont
"Here lies our darling baby boy
He never cries or hollers
He lived for one and twenty days
And cost us forty dollars."
Unknown grave
Here lies an atheist, all dressed up and nowhere to go.
Unknown soldiers
HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD
Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia; also used in other American War cemetaries, such as the ones in Normandy.)
Their name liveth forevermore.
From Ecclesiasticus chosen by Rudyard Kipling
[Unknown]
OMGWTFHAX?
Online gamers' argot expressing astonishment that some mighty avatar was slain, with the suggestion that the slayer used illegitimate means.
Unknown Author -
"Well this sucks"