Top 30 Francis Beaumont Quotes
#1. Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
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#2. Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.
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#3. Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
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#4. The fool that willingly provokes a woman, has made himself another evil angel and a new hell to which all other torments are but mere pastime...
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#5. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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#6. Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.
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#7. There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.
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#10. The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
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#11. Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
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#12. As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
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#13. My hard fortunes
Deserve not scorn; for I was never proud
When they were good.
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#16. Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
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#17. There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
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#21. My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love!
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#23. Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
And sweet thyme true,
Primrose, first born child of Ver,
Merry Spring-time's harbinger.
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#27. Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
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#28. Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.
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#29. It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken
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#30. Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
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