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Thomas Heywood Quotes

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

Thomas Heywood
Crowns, Kingdoms
c.1607 A Woman Killed with Kindness, sc.7.

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

Thomas Heywood
Nature, Theatre, Actors
Thomas Heywood, John Addington Symonds (1888). “Thomas Heywood”

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

Thomas Heywood
Death, Long, Heaven

Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.

Thomas Heywood
Heart, Impossible, Willing

Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.

Thomas Heywood
Marriage, Husband, Past

That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

Thomas Heywood
Time, Glasses, Turns
c.1607 A Woman Killed with Kindness, sc.13.

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

Thomas Heywood
Cities, Fame, Seven
The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels (1635)

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