Thomas Southerne Quotes

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When we're worn,
Hacked hewn with constant service, thrown aside
To rust in peace, or rot in hospitals.

Thomas Southerne

For love is but discovery:
When that is made, the pleasure's done.

Thomas Southerne

Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.

Thomas Southerne

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.

Thomas Southerne

When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face

Thomas Southerne

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

Thomas Southerne

Pity's akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

Thomas Southerne

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

Thomas Southerne