"Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for……" — William Davenant
"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 lost. By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven; In Praise we nobly give what God may take, And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven."
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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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All jealousy must be strangled in its birth...
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What one cannot, another can.
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I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment…
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Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.
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When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want…
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If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive…
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Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean…
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