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Kiss till the cows come home. - Scornful Lady (act II, sc. 2) [Kisses] Beggars must be no choosers. - Scornful Lady (act V, sc. 3) [Beggary] My dancing days are done. - Scornful Lady (act V, sc. 3) [Dancing] Pity, some say, is the parent of future love. - Spanish Curate (act V, sc. 1) [Pity] Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment. - The Captain (act V, sc. 5) [Action] Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will; 'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill. - The Chances (act II, sc. 2, song) [Power] No better than you should be. - The Coxcomb (act IV, sc. 3) [Proverbial Phrases] Great weeds do grow apace. - The Coxcomb (act IV, sc. 4) [Weeds] Death hath so many doors to let out life. - The Custom of the Country (act II, sc. 2) [Death] That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues. - The Elder Brother (act I, sc. 2, l. 177) [Books : Libraries] There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty. - The Elder Brother (act III, sc. 5) [Beauty] To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity. - The Fair Maid of the Inn (act I, sc. 1, l. 250) [Happiness] It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire. - The Faithful Friends (act I, sc. 2) [Prudence] No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend. - The Faithful Friends (act III, sc. 3, l. 50) [Friends] Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him. - The False One (act II, sc. 1, l. 169) [Fame : Greatness] From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet. - The Honest Man's Fortune (act II, sc. 2) [Proverbial Phrases] Hunger is sharper than the sword. - The Honest Man's Fortune (act II, sc. 2, l. 1) [Hunger] Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out. - The Honest Man's Fortune (act IV, sc. 1) [Suicide] Our lives are but our marches to the grave. - The Humorous Lieutenant (act III, sc. 5, l. 76) [Life] Let's meet and either do or die. - The Island Princess (act II, sc. 2) [Action] Evil beginning houres may end in good. - The Knight of Malta (act II, sc. 5) [Evil] One foot in the grave. - The Little French Lawyer (act I, sc. 1) [Graves] Something given that way. - The Lovers' Progress (act I, sc. 1) [Proverbial Phrases] Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one. - The Loyal Subject [Eyes] A soul as white as Heaven. - The Maid's Tragedy (act IV, sc. 1) [Soul] Displaying page 4 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5
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