John Fletcher quotes
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“Deeds, not words shall speak me.”
-- John FletcherSource : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Mr. Seward, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Sidrach Simpson (1750). “The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.404
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“We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit.”
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“Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.”
-- John FletcherSource : John Fletcher, Nathan Field, Philip Massinger (1991). “The Bloody Brother: A Tragedy”
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“Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile.”
-- John FletcherSource : John Fletcher (1860). “The Works of the Rev. John Fletcher, Late Vicar of Madeley”, p.237
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“O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!”
-- John FletcherSource : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, James Shirley (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Laws of candy. False one. Little French lawyer. Tragedy of Valentinian. Monsieur Thomas”, p.416
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“That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.”
-- John FletcherSource : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one”, p.468
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“Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.”
-- John FletcherSource : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Henry William Weber (1812). “The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes”, p.376
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“A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds And when the weeds begin to grow It's like a garden full of snow...”
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“He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.”
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“O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.”
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“Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.”
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“Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.”
-- John FletcherSource : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher”, p.333
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“Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile. Regard neither unbelief nor doubt. Fear neither sin nor hell. Choose neither life nor death. All these are swallowed up in the immensity of Christ and are triumphed over in His cross.”
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“Death hath so many doors to let out life.”
-- John FletcherSource : 'The Custom of the Country' (with Massinger) act 2, sc. 2.
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“Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.”
-- John FletcherSource : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1840). “The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher”, p.548
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“Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.”
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“Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
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“Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.”
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“Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!”
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“Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.”
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“Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.”
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“Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.”
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“Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
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“The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory”
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“A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.”
-- John FletcherSource : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Women pleas'd. Night-walker, or, the little thief. Island princess. Women's prize, or the tamer tam'd. Noble gentleman”, p.18
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“I find the medicine worse than the malady.”
-- John FletcherSource : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1711). “The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: The knight of the burning pestle. Loves pilgrimage. The double marriage. The maid in the mill. The knight of Malta. Love's cure. Women pleas'd”
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“Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.”
-- John FletcherSource : John Fletcher (1844). “The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions”, p.448
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“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
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