Thomas Southerne quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Thomas Southerne

Thomas Southerne Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

Pity is akin to love.

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

Pity's akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.