Quotes from Thomas Dekker


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Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.


Were there no women, men might live like gods.


Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.


This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.


Age is like love, it cannot be hid.


Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.


A mask of gold hides all deformities.


The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.


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.


Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.


O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!


This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.


Honest labor bears a lovely face.


We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.


This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.


What a heaven is love! O what a hell!