Thomas Heywood quotes
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“Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.”
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“That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.”
-- Thomas HeywoodSource : c.1607 A Woman Killed with Kindness, sc.13.
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“The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.”
-- Thomas HeywoodSource : Thomas Heywood, John Addington Symonds (1888). “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.”
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“Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.”
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“Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.”
-- Thomas HeywoodSource : The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels (1635)
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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
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“Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.”
Source : In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1973) vol. 2, ch. 13
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“And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.”
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Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College”
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“No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.”
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