Francis Beaumont quotes

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

" 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. " # Faith # Work # Heaven

" The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. " # Gain # Freedom # Power

" Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. " # Interest # Love # Blindness

" It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. " # Silence # Argument # Injury

" Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. " # Behavior # Happiness # Success

" There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. " # Wickedness # Age and Aging # Evil

" Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. " # Death and Dying # Love # Fear

" 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. " # Friends and Friendship

" What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. " # Books - Reading