'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.


The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher (ed. 1750)


'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.