Quote #16
Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decaying.
More from John (dramatist) Ford
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- Revenge proves its own executioner.
- Green indiscretion, flattery of greatness, Rawness of judgement, wilfulness in folly, Thoughts vagrant as the wind, and as uncertain.
- There's not a hair Sticks on my head but, like a leaden plummet, It sinks me to the grave: I must creep thither; The journey is not long.
- I am, gay creature, With pardon of your deities, a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
- Truth is child of time.
- Tempt not the stars, young man, thou canst not play With the severity of fate.
- Love is dead; let lovers' eyes Locked in endless dreams Th' extreme of all extremes Ope no more, for now Love dies.