Quotes by William Davenant

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.

Action

Design

Fierce

All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.

Birth

Gratitude

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

Birth

Overcoming

Strong

Ambition is the mind’s immodesty.

Ambition

Mind

Ambition’s monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir’d with toll nor cloy’d with power.

Ambition

Doe

Tolls

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

Anger

Blood

Wrath

Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat’ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman’s star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro’ your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

Eye

Light

Stars

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.

Ambition

Children

Wise

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Calamity

Glasses

Perfect

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

Dark

Faith

Light

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Afar

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Army

Art

Beautiful

Birth

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Calamity

Children

Comfort

Dark

Death

Design

Doe

Eye

Faith

Fame

Fate

Feet

Fierce

Glasses

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Grief

Hate

Heroic

Honor

Important

Innocence

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Liberty

Life

Light

Men

Mind

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Nice

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Quotes by William Davenant

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.

All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

Ambition is the mind’s immodesty.

Ambition’s monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir’d with toll nor cloy’d with power.

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

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.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

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