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6 Quotes for 'Sir John Davies' in the Database.
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Sir John Davies Quotes
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Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Deeds are males, words females are.
Topic: Deeds
Source: Scene of Folly (p. 147)
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For what made that in glory shine so long
But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
Topic: Pen
Source: Bien Venu
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Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit
In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:
If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,
She feels it instantly on every side.
Topic: Spiders
Source: The Immortality of the Soul (sec. XVIII, Feeling)
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There was a man bespake a think,
Which when the owner home did bring,
He that made it did refuse it:
And he that brought it would not use it,
And he that hath it doth now know
Whether he hath it yea or no.
Topic: Undertakers
Source: Riddle upon a Coffin
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Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
Topic: Zeal
Source: None
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