William Davenant Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
Of slight beginnings to important ends.

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught
To be contented with the least.