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Thomas Southerne Quotes

1660–1746 Ireland

Thomas Southerne (1660 – May 22, 1746), Irish dramatist, was born at Oxmantown, near Dublin, in 1660, and entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1676. Two years later he was entered at the Middle Temple, London.

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Also known as: Southerne, Thomas

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

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

Oroonoko: A Tragedy (1695)

Ambition is an idol on whose wings
Great minds are carry'd only to extreme;
To be sublimely great, or to be nothing.

And when we're worn,
Hack’d, hewn with constant service, thrown aside
To rust in peace, or rot in hospitals.

The Loyal Brother (1682)

'Tis something to be willing to commend;
But my best praise is, that I am your friend.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Southerne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.