A collection of notable quotations from a variety of Early Modern Era individuals. See the Guide for more details.
| Letter | Author | Find | Selected | | | | |
| Letter | Author | Find | Selected | | | | |
10 | A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.
| — Thomas Overbury | |
| Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.
| — Thomas Overbury | |
| An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous.
| — Thomas Overbury | |
| Beauty is only skin deep.
| — Thomas Overbury | |
| Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day.
| — Thomas Overbury | |
| Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.
| — Thomas Overbury | |
| The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.
| — Thomas Overbury | |
| Things were first made, then words.
| — Thomas Overbury | |
| Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.
| — Thomas Overbury | |
| Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
| — Thomas Overbury | |
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