Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
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Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.William Davenant
All jealousy must be strangled in its birth, or time will soon make it strong enough to overcome the truth.
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Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
William Davenant
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice Where Heaven divided faiths united finds But Prayer in various discord upward flies. For Prayer the ocean is where diversely Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast Where all our interests so discordant be That half beg winds by which the rest are lost. By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven In Praise we nobly give what God may take, And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven.
William Davenant
The assembled souls of all that men held wise.
William Davenant
Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings Awake, awake the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake break thro' your veils of lawn Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn.
William Davenant
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