"Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is…" — William Davenant
"Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know."
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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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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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What one cannot, another can.
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