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Phineas Fletcher
16 quotes
“Thus fell that prince of darkness, once a bright And shining star [...]: To be in Heaven the second he disdains; So now the first in Hell and flames he reigns, Crowned once with joy and light: crowned now with fire and pains.”
Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650) first seen 1627 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Locusts (1627), p. 37
“Drop, drop, slow tears, And bathe those beauteous feet, Which brought from Heaven The news and Prince of Peace.”
Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650) first seen 1633 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poetical Miscellanies (1633), "An Hymn
“In your deep floods Drown all my faults and fears; Not let His eye See sin, but through my tears.”
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Recorded in: Poetical Miscellanies (1633), "An Hymn
“Love’s tongue is in the eyes.”
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Recorded in: Piscatory Eclogues (1633), no. 5, st. 13
“Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.”
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“Love is like linen; often changed, the sweeter.”
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“Only in love they happy prove Who love what most deserves their love.”
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“The coward’s weapon, poison.”
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“The way to God is by ourselves.”
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“Poorly (poor man) he lived; poorly (poor man) he died.”
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“When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, but more the means, he raises: So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.”
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“In Heaven they scorned to serve, so now in Hell they reign.”
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Recorded in: John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667), Book 1, v. 263
“Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.”
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“He is as cowardly Who longer fears to live, as he who fears to die.”
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“His life is neither tossed in boisterous seas Of troublous world, nor lost in slothful ease.”
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Recorded in: Canto 12, st. 5; quoted in Dinah Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
“His little son into his bosom creeps, The lively picture of his father’s face.”
Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650) said by 1650 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Canto 12, st. 6; quoted in Dinah Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)