"Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from……" — William Davenant
"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 road."
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William Davenant
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15 Quotes by William Davenant
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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
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Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
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To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time…
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Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
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Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
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It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
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Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
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How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty…
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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…
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The assembled souls of all that men held wise.
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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…
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All jealousy must be strangled in its birth...
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More Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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