Wise Quotes by William Davenant

William Davenant

Be not with honor’s gilded baits beguil’d, Nor think ambition wise, because ’tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, ‘Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

Ambition

Children

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William Davenant

O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.

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Death

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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.

Ocean

Prayer

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William Davenant

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

Men

Soul

Wise

William Davenant

Think not ambition wise, because ‘t is brave.

Ambition

Thinking

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William Davenant

To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay’d, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom’d to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow’s spy, It is not safe to know.

Life

Summer

Wise

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Eye

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Wise Quotes by William Davenant

Be not with honor’s gilded baits beguil’d, Nor think ambition wise, because ’tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, ‘Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

Think not ambition wise, because ‘t is brave.

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