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Francis Beaumont

Francis Beaumont (1584 – 6 March 1616) was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.

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Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

Eating, Honor, Lying, Thing, Wisdom

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Dog, Literature, Love, Make, Rhyme

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

Betrayal, Hurt, Love, Love Is, Power

It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken

Broken, Heart, Spoken, Word

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.

Doubt, Doubting, Dread, False, Running, Soul

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

Grave, Graves, Life, Lives, March, Marches

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Death, Fear, Love, Men, Sleep, Sounder

But what is past my help is past my care.

Care, Help, Helping, Past

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger.

Children, Daisies, Harbinger, Spring, Sweet, True

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Deer, Envy, Fattest, Literature, Running, Singles

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Degrees, Growing Up, Grows, Men, Method, Wickedness

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!

Art, Childhood, Company, Forgive Me, God, Kept

Kiss till the cow comes home.

Cow, Cows, Home, Kiss, Kissing

Bad's the best of us.

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

Desire, Gain, Too Much, True, Way

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

Against, Care, Heart, Hearts, Let, Shut Up

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Friendship, Silence, Overcoming, Injury, Overcome, Argument

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

Conceal, Dangerous, Men, Occasions, Secret, Thinking

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.

Bird, Faith, Heaven, Like, Wings

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Attribute, Greatest, Headstone, Heaven, Mercy

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