Brave Quote by William Davenant

“O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.” quote by William Davenant — Download Open image

“O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.”

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 your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But…

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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 various discord upward flies. For Prayer the ocean is where diversely Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast; Where all our interests so discordant be That half beg winds by which the rest are…

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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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