John William Fletcher quotes
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“"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!”
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“Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.”
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“Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet.”
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“The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them.”
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“Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over, Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.”
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“The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the, old sages and philosophers; And sometimes for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-plac'd statutes.”
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“To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.”
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“Calamity is man's true touchstone.”
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“Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.”
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“Deeds, not words shall speak to me.”
-- John William Fletcher
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