John Fletcher may refer to:
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, Why should sadness longer last? Grief is but a wound to woe; Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.
Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.
Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.
He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.
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.
Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.
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.
A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.
Charity and treating begin at home.
The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory
Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit; There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and 'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire; Sit close and draw the table nigher; Be merry and drink wine that is old, A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold.
That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.
Great actions speak great minds.
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
The coward's weapon, poison.
Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.