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.
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 worth Boasts all the… - William Davenant
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 worth Boasts all the…
- William Davenant
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. - William Davenant
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath. - William Davenant
Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence. - William Davenant
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
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 ro… - 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 ro…
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Pr… - 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 Pr…
Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity. - William Davenant
Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.
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
All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. - William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
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