Thomas Overbury Quotes
Thomas Sackville Dorset (Earl of), Sir Thomas Overbury (1760). “Prolusions; or, Select pieces of antient poetry,--compil'd with great care from their several originals: and offer'd to the publick as specimens of the integrity that should be found in the editions of worthy authors, in three parts ... with a preface ...”, p.64
Thomas Overbury (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, now first collected: Edited with notes, and a biograph. account of the author by E. F. Rimbault”, p.190
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day
Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt. with Memoirs of His Life”, p.252
Sir Thomas Overbury, Edward Francis Rimbault (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury”, p.38
"The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder" by Thomas Overbury,
Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.
Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, with Memoirs of His Life. The Tenth Edition”, p.239
