BABeaumont And Fletcher

55 collected words

Beaumont And Fletcher

Dates not recorded

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01In print by 1905 AD

Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.

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02In print by 1905 AD

What 's one man's poison, signor, Is another's meat or drink.

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03In print by 1905 AD

Primrose, first-born child of Ver, Merry springtime's harbinger.

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04In print by 1905 AD

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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05In print by 1896 AD

Death comes but once.

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06In print by 1896 AD

Discretion and hard valor are the twins of honor.

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07In print by 1896 AD

No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend.

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08In print by 1896 AD

There is no man but may make his paradise.

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09In print by 1896 AD

There is an hour in each man's life appointed to make his happiness, if then he seize it.

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10In print by 1893 AD

Discretion / And hard valour are the twins of honour, / And, nursed together, make a conqueror; / Divided, but a talker.

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11In print by 1893 AD

No friend a friend until he shall prove a friend.

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12In print by 1893 AD

Nothing is a misery, / Unless our weakness apprehend it so; / We cannot be more faithful to ourselves / In anything that's manly, than to make / Ill-fortune as contemptible to us / As it makes us to others.

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13In print by 1893 AD

Nothing is thought rare / Which is not new and followed; yet we know / That what was worn some twenty years ago / Comes into grace again.

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14In print by 1893 AD

Our natures are like oil; compound us with anything, yet still we strive to swim upon the top.

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15In print by 1893 AD

There is a method in man's wickedness, / It grows by degrees.

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16In print by 1893 AD

They that are above have ends in everything.

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17Undated

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an unmeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

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18In print by 1888 AD

What is danger More than the weakness of our apprehension? A poor cold part o’ the blood; whom takes it hold of? Cowards and wicked livers; valiant minds Were made the masters of it.

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19In print by 1888 AD

What a scene of misery Hath thine obdurate frowardness, old man, Drawn on thy country’s bosom! and, for that, Thy proud ambition could not mount so high As to be styled thy country’s only patron; Thy malice hath descended to the depth Of hell, to be renowned in the title Of her destroyer.

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20In print by 1888 AD

Man’s life, sir, being So short, and then the way that leads unto The knowledge of ourselves so long and tedious, Each minute should be precious.

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21Undated

Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.

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22Undated

Thou will scarce be a man before thy mother.

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23Undated

Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallow-tree.

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24Undated

Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.

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