Thomas Overbury quotes:
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Beauty is only skin deep.
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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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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 man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.
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The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
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Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.
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Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day
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Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.
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Things were first made, then words.
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Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.
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A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.