Thomas Middleton Quotes

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Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

Thomas Middleton
When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.

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I'll imitate the pities of old Surgeons To this lost limb, who, ere they show their art, Cast one asleep, then cut the diseas'd part.

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From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.

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Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering?

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I that am of your blood was taken from you For your better health; look no more upon't, But cast it to the ground regardlessly, Let the common sewer take it from distinction.

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From thousands of our undone widows
One may derive some wit.

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Wilt make haste to give up thy verdict because thou wilt not lose thy dinner.

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How a good meaning
May be corrupted by a misconstruction.

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What is got over the Devil's back (that's by knavery), is spent under the belly (that's by lechery).

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As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet.

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How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!

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Like pearl
Dropt from the opening eyelids of the morn
Upon the bashful rose.

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That disease
Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.

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'Tis slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.

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Let the air strike our tune,
Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.

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By my faith the fool has feathered his nest well.

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Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray, Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.

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My study's ornament, thou shell of death,
Once the bright face of my betrothed lady.

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