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William Davenant Quotes
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William Davenant
English
Poet
Born:
1606
Died:
Apr 7
,
1668
Calamity
Know
Off
Safe
Since
Sorrow
Related authors:
Alexander Pope
Alfred Lord Tennyson
John Keats
John Milton
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert Browning
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
William Davenant
River
Like
Afar
Off
Fame
Where
Bred
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
William Davenant
Knowledge
Since
Know
Safe
Sorrow
Spy
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