Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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