Thomas Nash quotes
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“Garlick maketh a man wynke, drynke, and stynke.”
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“Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.”
-- Thomas NashSource : Thomas Nash (1964). “Pierce Penniless his supplication to the Devil: Summer's last will and testament. The terrors of the night. The unfortunate traveller, and selected writings”
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“All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year, The earth is hell when you leav'st to appear.”
-- Thomas NashSource : Thomas Nash (1964). “Pierce Penniless his supplication to the Devil: Summer's last will and testament. The terrors of the night. The unfortunate traveller, and selected writings”
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“As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.”
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“Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing. Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!”
-- Thomas NashSource : 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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