Thomas Nabbes

Thomas Nabbes (1605 – buried 6 April 1641) was an English dramatist.

Attributed

Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Quotes reported in: Charles Noel Douglas, Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

• It is the curse of greatness
  To be its own destruction.

• Philosophy, religious solitude
  And labour wait on temperance; in these
  Desire is bounded; they instruct the mind’s
  And body’s action.

• Treachery oft lurks
  In compliments. You have sent so many posts
  Of undertakings, they outride performance;
  And make me think your fair pretences aim
  At some intended ill, which my prevention
  Must strive to avert.

• What can we not endure,
  When pains are lessen’d by the hope of cure?

• Fortitude is not the appetite of formidable things, nor inconsult rashness; but virtue fighting for a truth, derived from knowledge of distinguishing good or bad causes.

• It is, indeed, a blessing, when the virtues of noble races are hereditary; and do derive themselves from the imitation of virtuous ancestors.

• There’s not so much danger in a known foe as a suspected friend.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Thomas Nabbes on Wikipedia