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Thomas Dekker
English
Dramatist
About the author
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Love
#May
#Old
#Kings
#Hate
#Fate
#Treason
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Health
#Sleep
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Gold
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Love
#Age
Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Children
#Arguments
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.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Will
#Day
#Money
#Sorrow
#Care
#Fortune
#Tomorrow
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Eyes
#Kiss
#Smiles
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Passion
#Angels
O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Heaven
What a heaven is love! O what a hell!
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Heaven
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Man
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Husbands
#Wives
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Age
#School
#Wisdom
#Fool
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Will
#World
#Science
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Men
#Women
#Gods
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
Thomas Dekker,
English
Dramatist
#Labor