Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas quotes
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“What is well done is done soon enough.”
-- Guillaume de Salluste Du BartasSource : Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”
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“For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?”
-- Guillaume de Salluste Du BartasSource : Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”
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“God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.”
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“Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.”
-- Guillaume de Salluste Du BartasSource : "La Semaine; ou, Création du monde". Poem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1578.
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“I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.”
-- Guillaume de Salluste Du BartasSource : Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”
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“The will for deed I doe accept.”
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“Apoplexie and lethargie,As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.”
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“And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.”
-- Guillaume de Salluste Du BartasSource : Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”
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“Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.”
-- Guillaume de Salluste Du BartasSource : Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1613). “Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes”, p.555
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“A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.”
-- Guillaume de Salluste Du BartasSource : Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”
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“Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.”
-- Guillaume de Salluste Du BartasSource : Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”
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“Night's black Mantle covers all alike.”
-- Guillaume de Salluste Du BartasSource : Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”
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“The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.”
-- Guillaume de Salluste Du BartasSource : "La Semaine; ou, Création du monde". Poem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1578.
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“There is no Theam more plentifull to scan, Then is the glorious goodly frame of Man.”
-- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
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