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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.

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    Passion   Heart   Soul  

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

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    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

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

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

  • Pity is akin to love.

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

  • Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

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

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

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    Death   Lying   Together  

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

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    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

  • 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

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    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

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

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    Heaven   Crime   Court  
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Thomas Southerne

  • Born: 1660
  • Died: May 22, 1746
  • Occupation: Dramatist
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