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Thomas Overbury Quotations

Thomas Overbury

Poet
Sir Thomas Overburywas an English poet and essayist, also known for being the victim of a murder which led to a scandalous trial. His poem A Wife, which depicted the virtues that a young man should demand of a woman, played a large role in the events that precipitated his murder... (wikipedia)

Ancestry Quotes

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Next Day Quotes

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day
Food Quotes

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.
Instruments Quotes

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.
Flames Quotes

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
Bees Quotes

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder Quotes

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.
Firsts Quotes

Things were first made, then words.
Flattery Quotes

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.
Women Quotes

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.
Skins Quotes

Beauty is only skin deep.

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