Quote

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

John Fletcher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Fletcher
Age: 45 †
Born: 1579
Born: November 30
Died: 1625
Died: August 1
Dramatist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Rye
East Sussex
Like
Restrain
Everlasting
Kill
Power
Love

More quotes by John Fletcher

Image
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.
John Fletcher
Image
Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.
John Fletcher
Image
A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.
John Fletcher
Image
Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything The world's a fine believing world, write news.
John Fletcher
Image
We must not be content to be cleansed from sin we must be filled with the Spirit.
John Fletcher
Image
Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels for you'll find it certain.
John Fletcher
Image
Charity and treating begin at home.
John Fletcher
Image
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.
John Fletcher
Image
Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.
John Fletcher
Image
Great actions speak great minds.
John Fletcher
Image
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.
John Fletcher
Image
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.
John Fletcher
Image
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.
John Fletcher
Image
That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.
John Fletcher
Image
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
John Fletcher
Image
O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
John Fletcher
Image
Come, sing now, sing for I know you sing well I see you have a singing face.
John Fletcher
Image
It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing.
John Fletcher
Image
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
John Fletcher
Image
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.
John Fletcher