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> [Thou art true and honest as a dog.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/thou-art-true-and-honest-as-a-dog/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

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## More by Sir John Davies

> [What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/what-more-than-madness-reigns-when-one-short-sitting-many-hundreds/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/much-like-a-subtle-spider-which-doth-sit-in-middle-of-her-web-which/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/we-may-conceive-an-hope-that-the-next-generation-will-in-tongue-and/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [Deeds are males, words females are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/deeds-are-males-words-females-are/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/hence-it-is-that-old-men-do-plant-young-trees-the-fruit-whereof/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/for-what-made-that-in-glory-shine-so-long-but-poets-pens-pluckt-from/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [Thou art true and honest as a dog.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/thou-art-true-and-honest-as-a-dog/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [Dancing is a frenzyand a rage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/dancing-is-a-frenzyand-a-rage/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/wit-the-pupil-of-the-soul-s-clear-eye/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/if-aught-can-teach-us-aught-affliction-s-looks-making-us-pry-into/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [These wickets of the soul are plac'd so high, Because all sounds do highly move aloft; And that they may not pierce too violently,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/these-wickets-of-the-soul-are-plac-d-so-high-because-all-sounds-do/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/i-know-myself-a-man-which-is-a-proud-and-yet-a-wretched-thing/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/i-know-my-soul-hath-power-to-know-all-things-yet-is-she-blind-and/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/zeal-without-knowledge-is-the-sister-of-folly/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

> [This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/this-is-the-slowest-yet-the-daintiest-sense-for-ev-n-the-ears-of-such/)

[Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/)

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