William Davenant Quotes

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• Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
• Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
• To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to…
• Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
• Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
• It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
• Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
• How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter…
• Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your…
• The assembled souls of all that men held wise.
• Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various…
• All jealousy must be strangled in its birth...
• What one cannot, another can.
• Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
• Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public…

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