WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:46:12 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Rowe, Nicholas – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Rowe, Nicholas -- Tamerlane, Act 2, sc. 2 (1701) https://wist.info/rowe-nicholas/35132/ https://wist.info/rowe-nicholas/35132/#respond Fri, 16 Sep 2016 22:31:19 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35132 Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good,
Though the ungrateful subjects of their favors
Are barren in return.


Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718) English poet and dramatist
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Death is the Privilege of human Nature,
And Life without it were not worth our taking;
Thither the Poor, the Pris’ner, and the Mourner,
Fly for Relief, and lay their Burthens down.


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