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William Davenant Quotes: Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
         

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


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



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It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.



Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.



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Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.



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

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



Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.



Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.



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Ambition is the mind's immodesty.



Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.

Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.





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