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Michael Drayton quotes: All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

Michael Drayton quotes: It is your virtue, being men, to try;And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

It is your virtue, being men, to try;
And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

Michael Drayton quotes: When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray.

When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray.

Michael Drayton quotes: With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

Michael Drayton quotes: The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

Michael Drayton quotes: Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.

Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.

Michael Drayton quotes: WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.

WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.

Michael Drayton quotes: The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.

The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.

Michael Drayton quotes: Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Michael Drayton quotes: So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.