You are no better than you should be. by Francis Beaumont

You are no better than you should be.

Francis Beaumont

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Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

Francis Beaumont

soul doubt running

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation. by Francis Beaumont

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

Francis Beaumont

robes desolation grace

But what is past my help is past my care. by Francis Beaumont

But what is past my help is past my care.

Francis Beaumont

care helping past

Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.

Francis Beaumont

ginger red noses

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straigh... by Francis Beaumont

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

Francis Beaumont

companionship pity path

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument t... by Francis Beaumont

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Francis Beaumont

silence overcoming friendship

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, by Francis Beaumont

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,

Francis Beaumont

spring sweet children

If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Francis Beaumont

forgiveness silence men

Bad's the best of us. by Francis Beaumont

Bad's the best of us.

Francis Beaumont

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. by Francis Beaumont

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

Francis Beaumont

some-people some blind people