John Fletcher
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.Collection: Alone
Love's tongue is in his eyes.Collection: Love
Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Deed, not words shall speak me.
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
The coward's weapon, poison.
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
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.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.Collection: Inspirational
We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit.Collection: Spirit
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.Collection: Tree
Great actions speak great minds.Collection: Mind
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.Collection: Wisdom
Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.Collection: Devil
The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the gloryCollection: Justice
Death hath so many doors to let out life.Collection: Death
Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile. Regard neither unbelief nor doubt. Fear neither sin nor hell. Choose neither life nor death. All these are swallowed up in the immensity of Christ and are triumphed over in His cross.Collection: Jesus
Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.Collection: Lust
Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.Collection: Believe
It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing.Collection: Funny
A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.Collection: Women
Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile.Collection: Jesus
That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.Collection: Men
Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.Collection: Power
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!Collection: Sweet
O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!Collection: Perfect
Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.Collection: Music
Charity and treating begin at home.Collection: Home
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.Collection: Mind
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.Collection: Stars
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: War
Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.Collection: Brother