Phineas Fletcher quotes
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“Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.”
-- Phineas FletcherSource : 'Poetical Miscellanies' (1633) 'An Hymn'
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“Love's tongue is in the eyes....”
-- Phineas FletcherSource : 'Piscatory Eclogues' (1633) no. 5, st. 13
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“Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.”
-- Phineas FletcherSource : Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher (1783). “The purple island, or The isle of man. [In verse] To which is added, Christ's victory and triumph, a poem by G. Fletcher”, p.116
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“Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter.”
-- Phineas FletcherSource : 'Sicelides' (performed 1614) act 3, sc. 5
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“Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.”
-- Phineas FletcherSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 31-33, Sicelides, act II, scene 4, 1922.
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“Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.”
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“The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.”
-- Phineas Fletcher
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“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
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“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
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“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
Source : Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.135, Penguin
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