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> [Things were first made, then words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-overbury/things-were-first-made-then-words/)

[Thomas Overbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-overbury/)

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## More by Thomas Overbury

> [An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-overbury/an-ambitious-woman-shewes-her-selfe-to-bee-a-troublesome-disturber-of/)

[Thomas Overbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-overbury/)

> [Beauty is only skin deep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-overbury/beauty-is-only-skin-deep/)

[Thomas Overbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-overbury/)

> [The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-overbury/the-man-who-has-nothing-to-boast-of-but-his-illustrious-ancestry-is/)

[Thomas Overbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-overbury/)

> [Things were first made, then words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-overbury/things-were-first-made-then-words/)

[Thomas Overbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-overbury/)

> [Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-overbury/wit-and-woman-are-two-frail-things-and-both-the-frailer-by-concurring/)

[Thomas Overbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-overbury/)

> [The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-overbury/the-man-who-has-nothing-to-boast-of-but-his-illustrious-ancestry-is-2/)

[Thomas Overbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-overbury/)

> [Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-overbury/nature-is-god-s-art-is-man-s-instrument/)

[Thomas Overbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-overbury/)

> [A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-overbury/a-flatterer-is-the-shadow-of-a-fool/)

[Thomas Overbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-overbury/)

> [Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-overbury/absence-doth-sharpen-love-presence-strengthens-it/)

[Thomas Overbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-overbury/)

> [Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-overbury/good-deeds-in-this-life-are-coals-raked-up-in-embers-to-make-a-fire/)

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> [Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-overbury/wit-is-brushwood-judgment-timber-the-one-gives-the-greatest-flame-the/)

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