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

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  • Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

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    Thomas Sackville Dorset (Earl of), Sir Thomas Overbury (1760). “Prolusions; or, Select pieces of antient poetry,--compil'd with great care from their several originals: and offer'd to the publick as specimens of the integrity that should be found in the editions of worthy authors, in three parts ... with a preface ...”, p.64

  • Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

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    Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder   Absence   Absent Friends  
    Thomas Overbury (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, now first collected: Edited with notes, and a biograph. account of the author by E. F. Rimbault”, p.190

  • 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.

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  • Beauty is only skin deep.

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  • A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

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  • Things were first made, then words.

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    Sir Thomas Overbury, Edward Francis Rimbault (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury”, p.38

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

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    Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt. with Memoirs of His Life”, p.252

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

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    Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, with Memoirs of His Life. The Tenth Edition”, p.239

  • An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

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    "The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder" by Thomas Overbury,
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Thomas Overbury

  • Born: 1581
  • Died: September 14, 1613
  • Occupation: Poet
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