Thomas Heywood famous quotes

05-20-2025

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.
-- Thomas Heywood

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That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.
-- Thomas Heywood

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The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
-- Thomas Heywood

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Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.
-- Thomas Heywood

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Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.
-- Thomas Heywood

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Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.
-- Thomas Heywood

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Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]
-- Thomas Heywood

#Death #Long #Heaven

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
Let us hope that the US (Democratic and Republican party) allows us, their European cultural and economical crown vassals, to liberate ourselves and deport the Muslims without them militarily intervening. We shouldn't forget that we have many allies in the US including a sizable faction of the Republican Party.
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But one thing I do know. When I get there I am not going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Moses? Why weren't you David?' I am only going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Zuscha? Why weren't you fully you?'"
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Thomas Heywood famous quotes

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