Thomas Overbury Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.”
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“Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.”
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“Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day”
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“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.”
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“An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous”
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“Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.”
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“The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.”
-- Thomas Overbury
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