Thomas Campion Quotes

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• There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.
• All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.
• Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine....
• Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!
• Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
• Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.
• Beauty is not beauty without love.
• From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
• Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures…
• My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do…
• Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power…
• Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.
• The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom…
• Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.
• Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

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