Thomas Southerne Quotes

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

  Thomas Southerne

  Soul, Welcome, Kind

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”

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

  Thomas Southerne

  Opportunity, Affliction, Virtue

  Thomas Southerne (1713). “The maid's last prayer: or, Any, rather than fail. The fatal marriage: or, The innocent adultery. Oroonoko. The fate of Capua. [Taken from general t-p; some variations on special t-ps, e.g. Sir Antony Love”, p.295

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• Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

  Thomas Southerne

  Lying, Cowardice, Mark

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”, p.104

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• 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

  Eye, Secret, Guilt

  Thomas Southerne (1774). “The fate of Capua. The Spartan dame. Money the mistress. A letter from the Earl of Orrey to Thomas Southerne”, p.144

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• An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

  Thomas Southerne

  Heaven, Crime, Court

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

  Thomas Southerne

  Courage, Causes, Innocence

  Thomas Southerne (1713). “The maid's last prayer: or, Any, rather than fail. The fatal marriage: or, The innocent adultery. Oroonoko. The fate of Capua. [Taken from general t-p; some variations on special t-ps, e.g. Sir Antony Love”, p.301

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

  Thomas Southerne

  Death, Lying, Together

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• Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.

  Thomas Southerne

  Passion, Heart, Soul

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• Pity is akin to love.

  Thomas Southerne

  Pity

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”

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