62 Quotes by John Fletcher

Charity and treating begin at home.

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.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.

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!

Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

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.

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing.