Thomas Otway Quotes

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• Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
• Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
• Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
• Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.
• Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
• No praying, it spoils business.
• No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.
• Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's…
• Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
• Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.
• There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.
• Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
• If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

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