(4 quotes found)
“Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know”
William Davenant
“Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves”
“For I must go where lazy PeaceWill hide her drowsy head;And, for the sport of kings, increaseThe number of the dead.”
“Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off”