Top 9 Thomas Overbury Quotes

#1. Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

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#2. An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

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#3. Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

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#4. Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

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#5. The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

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#6. A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

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#7. Beauty is only skin Deep

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#8. Things were first made, then words.

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#9. Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

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