Phineas Fletcher quotes

“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 Fletcher

Source : 'Poetical Miscellanies' (1633) 'An Hymn'

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“Love's tongue is in the eyes....”
-- Phineas Fletcher

Source : 'Piscatory Eclogues' (1633) no. 5, st. 13

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“Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.”
-- Phineas Fletcher

Source : 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 Fletcher

Source : 'Sicelides' (performed 1614) act 3, sc. 5

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“Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.”
-- Phineas Fletcher

Source : "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.”
-- Phineas Fletcher

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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 relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.”

“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”

“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”

“I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.”

“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

“The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.”

“Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

“I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.”

“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