John Day (dramatist)

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“For beauties from worth arise
Are like the grace of deities,”
—Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

“How can they know
Truth flourishes where the student’s lamp has shone,
And there alone, that have no solitude?
So the crowd come they care not what may come.
They have loud music, hope every day renewed
And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)