Thomas Overbury quotes
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“Things were first made, then words.”
-- Thomas OverburySource : Sir Thomas Overbury, Edward Francis Rimbault (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury”, p.38
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“Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.”
-- Thomas OverburySource : Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, with Memoirs of His Life. The Tenth Edition”, p.239
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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”
-- Thomas OverburySource : Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt. with Memoirs of His Life”, p.252
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“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.”
-- Thomas OverburySource : Thomas Overbury (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, now first collected: Edited with notes, and a biograph. account of the author by E. F. Rimbault”, p.190
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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”
-- Thomas OverburySource : "The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder" by Thomas Overbury,
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“Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.”
-- Thomas OverburySource : Thomas Sackville Dorset (Earl of), Sir Thomas Overbury (1760). “Prolusions; or, Select pieces of antient poetry,--compil'd with great care from their several originals: and offer'd to the publick as specimens of the integrity that should be found in the editions of worthy authors, in three parts ... with a preface ...”, p.64
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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.”
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“Beauty is only skin deep.”
-- Thomas Overbury#Beauty Quotes #Skins Quotes #Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Quotes
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