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Thomas Dekker is the name of:

• Thomas Dekker (writer) (1572–1632), Elizabethan poet and dramatist
• Thomas Leighton Decker (1916-1978), Sierra Leonean poet, linguist, and journalist
• Thomas Dekker (actor) (born 1987), American film and television actor and a musician
• Thomas Dekker (cyclist) (born 1984), Dutch road racing cyclist

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Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 – August 25, 1632) was an Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.

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• A wise man poor
  Is like a sacred book that ’s never read,—
  To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
  This age thinks better of a gilded fool
  Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.
  • Old Fortunatus (1599).

• And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
  There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.
  • Old Fortunatus (1599).

• To add to golden numbers golden numbers.
  • Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.

• Honest labour bears a lovely face.
  • Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.

• The best of men
  That e’er wore earth about him was a sufferer;
  A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,
  The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
  • The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act i. Sc. 12. Compare: "Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne", Juliana Berners, Heraldic Blazonry.

• I was ne’er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.
  • The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Zounds! I was never so bethump’d with words, Since I first call’d my brother’s father dad", William Shakespeare, King John, Act ii. Sc. 2.

• This principle is old, but true as fate,—
  Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
  • The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 4. Compare: "Cæsar said he loved the treason, but hated the traitor", Plutarch, Life of Romulus.

• We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies.
  • The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act i. Sc. 2.

• Turn over a new leaf.
  • The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act ii. Sc. 1. Compare: "Turn over a new leaf", Thomas Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act iii. Sc. 3.

• Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?
  O sweet content!
  Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplex'd?
  O punishment!
  • Poem Sweet Content

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