But what is past my help is past my care.
Francis Beaumont
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Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Dwelling in the PAST is like jumping from a vertiginous height and landing on a bottomless pit… a ...
HEARTTOHEART THOUGHTS Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ My past is ahead of me because I am beyond my past.
STEVEN CUOCO Never look back. What gone is now history. But in the process make memory of events to help you unde...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my so...
ZADIE SMITH Leave my past... come in the present (PLEASE).
DEYTH BANGER We both know... that soon everything is going to end...
...
This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Music is my life.
ROBERT ILER My past won't change my future, but my present can.
NISHAL MAHARAJ It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Music is my life. It is sacred.
JIMMY CHAMBERLIN I can imagine my future and I can recollect my past. In my future, I am imagining my future and I am...
UNKNOWN X Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
JAMES STEPHENS My past is everything I failed to be.
FERNANDO PESSOA The past is a pebble in my shoe.
POE What 's gone and what 's past help Should be past grief. -The Winter's Tale. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.
MARY LYDON SIMONSEN When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.
TAMARA ECCLESTONE Who I am today is a constant reminder of what I took from my past challenges.
GODSWAY SAPPOR From my past performances. From my past success. I know all days cannot be rosy and what keeps me go...
SOURAV GANGULY I didn't ever see past the beginnings, ... All I saw was the good times. But now because of the Good...
ROBERT COOPER I cannot change the past but the present is my opportunity to change the future
TONY BRADY Things past redress are now with me past care
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.
BIDZINA IVANISHVILI What is the past but what we choose to remember?
AMY TAN My past doesn’t determine what I am and what I do for my future. I resolved with God and love to g...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE The past is haunting us. In Queens, in Manhattan, it is shadowing us, punching us in the stomach. I ...
GARY SHTEYNGART My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
HUGH LEONARD You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.
CASSANDRA CLARE Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER The only way to fix my past mistakes is to change my present behaviour.
JIM GENOVESE I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn ...
LINDSAY LOHAN My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
WILKIE COLLINS My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the su...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI I can´t change my past, or predict my future. But i can shape my present.
ARMIN HOUMAN What's gone and what's past help should be past grief
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's gone, and what's past help,
Should be past grieve.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and...
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anythi...
ALEX TREBEK What is past is prologue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLS I am haunted by my past and by what I must do to ensure my future.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 Faith is to the soul wh...
J. C. RYLE What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpl...
KIKI ARCHER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on ...
GUNTHER SCHULLER Getting past my past... was a process, a very serious process indeed.
VANITY It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will beco...
SHARON CAMERON Philips has been a proud supporter of the TOPS program for the past five years in their efforts to h...
DEBORAH DISANZO I've told her (in the past) help is coming. Between (last year's returnees and this year's incoming ...
JASON TANNER It's just that Robertson--given some of what he has said in the past--doesn't help to promote that d...
MARK ROZELL What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
STEVE BURNS Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
LENNY KRAVITZ J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me bel...
LATOYA JACKSON Farewell, vain world, I've had enough of thee,
And Valies't not what thou Can'st say of me;
Th...
EPITAPH Ocean's Twelve. Her and my relationship is a time in the past.
CHRIS KLEIN My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present b...
GENE OLIVER My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present ...
GENE OLIVER If my past brought solace to your now. Then my past wasn't about me, it was all about you.
SUSIE L HILL For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA The past is the past but the present and the future is greater.
JANA K ALEXANDER What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
STEVE NASH The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The pas...
WALT WHITMAN The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf -the sleepers and the shadows! The past!...
WALT WHITMAN Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr...
RYAN SHECKLER ...you may have created my past and screwed up my present but you have no control over my future.
DAVID KLASS My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, b...
GORDIE HOWE The past and the present are within my field of inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a ha...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. WHITNEY BROWN People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but ...
SPARKY ANDERSON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY My question is: How did this get past us and what do we do to rectify it so it doesn't happen again?
MARTI WHITE I love everything. The way she strokes her earlobe when she's thinking. The way she chews her pen wh...
KIKI ARCHER Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
MAHATMA GANDHI I don't regret my past but I regret not doing enough to achieve my goals today. Today is the only op...
OSCAR BIMPONG Strike a match, ignite my past.
CADY GROVES My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
V. S. NAIPAUL Something that is yours forever is never precious
CHAIM POTOK I refuse to live My life under the shadows of doubts or fears! For I know who I am and I know where ...
PHILIP T. M. My job is to push him as far as I can and you only know what the limit is when you go past it someti...
BOB BOWMAN Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
GUNTHER SCHULLER Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies ...
E. J. HOBSBAWM Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies ...
ERIC HOBSBAWM See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
More Francis Beaumont
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, y...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT You are no better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Here's an acre sown indeed,
With the richest royalest seed.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT 'Twas he
Gave heat unto the injury, which returned
Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a m...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, / And sweet thyme true, / Primrose, first born child of Ver, / ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cin...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Upon my buried body lie / Lightly, gentle earth.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT As men / Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, / After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is always good/ When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Bad's the best of us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Kiss till the cow comes home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's Right Honorable
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will;
'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty a...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER After supper walk a mile.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER What mare's nest hast thou found?
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Hit the nail on the head.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I find the medicine worse than the malady.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There is an hour in each man's life appointed
To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Charity and treating begin at home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let them learn first to show pity at home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense
of tranquility which religion fai...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Tis not a life,
'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Beggars must be no choosers.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There's nothing that allays an angry mind
So soon as a sweet beauty.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Death hath so many doors to let out life.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER We must all die!
All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,
Nor how, so we die well; and...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Hunger is sharper than the sword.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in
water.
[Fr., L'injure se grave e...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER All your better deeds
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Deeds, not words.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Something given that way.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER This is a pretty flimflam.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER No better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
Of an immeasurable length: they spread
Ev'rywhere; a...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nature too unkind;
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I care not twopence.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise:
At least be more than I was; and be sure
You cr...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nose, nose, holly red nose,
And who gave thee that jolly red nose?
Nutmegs and ginger, cinammo...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nothing is thought rare
Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know
That what was worn some tw...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Kiss till the cows come home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER But is there nothing else,
That we may do but only walk? Methinks
Brothers and sisters lawful...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything;
The world's a fine believing world, write news.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER My dancing days are done.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Evil beginning houres may end in good.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well;
I see you have a singing face.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hem...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER But they that are above
Have ends in everything.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER What's one man's poison, signior,
Is another's meat or drink.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where h...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He that's liberal
To all alike, may do a good by chance,
But never out of judgment.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER One foot in the grave.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Fortune, now see, now proudly
Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,
Look what thou h...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A soul as white as Heaven.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Sing a song of sixpence.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under
Fortune's false lottery, desperately run
To death, fo...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER And he that will to bed go sober,
Falls with the leaf still in October.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It would talk;
Lord, how it talked!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let's meet and either do or die.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Tis a word that's quickly spoken,
Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He shall have chariots easier than air,
That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,
That art...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll put that in my considering cap.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There is a method in man's wickedness,
It grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let the world slide.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Whistle, and she'll come to you.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He comes not in my books.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll have a fling.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-...
CHARLES BEAUMONT Maurice made a massive contribution to all the teams he played for. He had a huge heart and will be ...
BILL BEAUMONT Maurice was a powerful and very athletic rugby player who made a massive contribution to the clubs h...
BILL BEAUMONT The lads say my bum is the equivalent of one 'Erica
BILL BEAUMONT I've gotten to saying that the irony is pretty thick around here.
JAY BEAUMONT They'll have to figure out a way to bring water into Pine Bush from the rest of Crawford.
JAY BEAUMONT That's been our Achilles this year. In three conference losses, we've had 23 errors. It makes it dif...
MIKE BEAUMONT These girls are a tight group. They just support each other and they do not panic. They make mistake...
MIKE BEAUMONT We but the ball in play a lot tonight. We had a great game plan coming in tonight we were going t...
MICHAEL BEAUMONT If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
FRANCIS “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
FRANCIS Why slander we the times?
What crimes
Have days and years, that we
Thus charge them with...
DR. JOSEPH BEAUMONT Calamity is man's true touchstone.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER sometimes the most simple things in the world can be the most beautiful.
ROWENA BEAUMONT CHERRY Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
FRANCIS QUARLES Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN There is no expeditious road
To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
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FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON