Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher ( 10 of 73 )
Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise:
At least be more than I was; and be sure
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Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise:
At least be more than I was; and be sure
You credit anything the light gives life to
Before a man.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
And he that will to bed go sober,
Falls with the leaf still in October.
And he that will to bed go sober,
Falls with the leaf still in October.
One foot in the grave.
One foot in the grave.
No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
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Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall presume to prophesy their date,
Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
