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[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. (Thomas Dekker)
Honest labour bears a lovely face. View quote
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This principle is old, but true as fate,- Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. View quote
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We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. View quote
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QUEEN: But Hymen's torch, held downward, shall drop out, And for it, the mad Furies swing their brands About the bride-chamber. View quote
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Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? O sweet content! Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplex'd? O punishment! View quote
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Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise. View quote
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A mask of gold hides all deformities. View quote
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Age is like love, it cannot be hid. View quote
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Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it. View quote
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And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds, There 's a lean fellow beats all conquerors. (Thomas Dekker)
ALANZO: Wrongs, like great whirlwinds, Shake highest battlements. Few for heaven would care, Should they be ever happy. View quote
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ONAELIA:You are like common beadles, apt to lash Almost to death poor wretches not worth striking, But fawn with slavish flattery on damned vices So great men act them. You clap hands at those, Where the true poet indeed doth scorn to gild A gaudy tomb with glory of his verse, Which coffins stinking carrion. View quote
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I was ne'er so thrummed since I was a gentleman. View quote
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KING: I am full of thoughts, A thousand wheels toss my incertain fears, There is a storm in my hot boiling brains, Which rises without wind. A horrid one. View quote
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A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read,- To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. View quote
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To add to golden numbers golden numbers. View quote
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BALTHAZAR: Subjects may stumble, when kings walk astray. Thine acts shall be a new Apocrypha. View quote
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BALTHAZAR: I have a private coat for Italian stilettos, I can be treacherous with the Walloon, drunk with the Dutch, a chimney-sweeper with the Irish, a gentleman with the Welsh and true arrant thief with the English. What then is my country to me? View quote
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BALTHAZAR: Sin is a raven croaking her own fall. View quote
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ONAELIA: One step to human bliss is sweet revenge. (Thomas Dekker)
The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed. View quote
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ONAELIA: What sort of poets are there? POET: Two sorts lady: The great poets and the small poets. ONAELIA: Great and small! Which do you call the great? The fat ones? View quote
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Turn over a new leaf. View quote
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Thomas Dekker

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Occupation: English Dramatist
Born: 1572
Died: August 25, 1632
Quotes count: 24