Beaumont and Fletcher Quotes

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It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.

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Nature too unkind;
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!

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All your better deeds
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.

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

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'Tis not a life,
'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.

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But they that are above
Have ends in everything.

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Upon my buried body lie lightly, gentle earth.

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There is a method in man's wickedness—
It grows up by degrees.

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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.

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He shall have chariots easier than air,
That I will have invented;… And thyself,
That art the messenger, shalt ride before him
On a horse cut out of an entire diamond.
That shall be made to go with golden wheels,
I know not how yet.

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Philaster: Oh, but thou dost not know
What 'tis To Die.
Bellario: Yes, I do know, my lord:
'Tis Less than to be born, a lasting sleep;
A quiet resting from all jealousy
A thing we all pursue; I know, besides,
'Tis but a giving over of a game
That must be lost.

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But is there nothing else,
That we may do but only walk? Methinks,
Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.

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

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