Birth Quote by William Davenant

“All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.”

William Davenant

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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

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Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the…

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Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

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Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

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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…

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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…

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For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.

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Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men, A swelling pearl, and such whose single…

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It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

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How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

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Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.

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What one cannot, another can.

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“Every child is born as angel.”

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Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the…

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It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all…

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Always keep the smile, because the smile is the beginning of love.

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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

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