Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher ( 10 of 73 )
Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--
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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,
The poorer and the baser you appear,
The more you look through still.
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
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.
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,
Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
