'Tis virtue, and not birth ...

\'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.
 John Fletcher

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Quotes from the same author

Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
 John Fletcher
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.
 John Fletcher
Great actions speak great minds.
 John Fletcher