Thomas Dekker

“Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.”

“A mask of gold hides all deformities.”

“Were there no women, men might live like gods.”

“O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!”

“This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.”

“Honest labor bears a lovely face.”

“Age is like love, it cannot be hid.”

“Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.”

“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

“Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.”

“Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.”

“We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.”

“The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.”

“What a heaven is love! O what a hell!”

“This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.”

“Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.”

“Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thyfriends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it...deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer,a cooling fan of feathers.”