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Sir John Davies

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Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
- Sir John Davies
Collection: Folly
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Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.
- Sir John Davies
Collection: Men
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We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.
- Sir John Davies
Collection: Heart
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Thou art true and honest as a dog.
- Sir John Davies
Collection: Dog
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I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.
- Sir John Davies
Collection: Kings
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Deeds are males, words females are.
- Sir John Davies
Collection: Males
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Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.
- Sir John Davies
Collection: Eye
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What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.
- Sir John Davies
Collection: Gambling
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I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.
- Sir John Davies
Collection: Men
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For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
- Sir John Davies
Collection: Wings
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Dancing is a frenzyand a rage.
- Sir John Davies
Collection: Dancing

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