Thomas Dekker Quotes
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
Dekker, Thomas. The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London. London, Printed by E.A. for Nathaniel Butter, 1606. Reprinted in The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London, edited by Edward Arber, English Scholar's Library, 1879, p. 41.
Mormons in later years found this principle difficult to enforce where there was unemployment and workers were idle through no fault of their own. The local Mormon churches were very active in encouraging wealthier Mormons to hire those who were unemployed.
Thomas Dekker was an English 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.
