It is the crown of justice and the glory, where it may kill with right, to save with pity.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Compassion
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Death, Dying
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.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Faith
The Arabians have a saying, that it is not good to jest with God, death, or the devil; for the first neither can nor will be mocked; the second mocks all men one time or another; and the third puts an eternal sarcasm on those that are too familiar with him.
—Francis Beaumont
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
Topics: Arguments, Injury, Forgiveness, Silence
Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Manners, Behavior
Of all the paths that lead to a woman’s love, pity is the straightest.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Love
Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Curiosity
Emulation is a noble passion.—It is enterprising, but just withal.—It keeps within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous; striving to excel, not by depressing others, but by raising itself.
—Francis Beaumont
The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Mercy
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 soever 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.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Confidence
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning blood hound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.—Abraham’s riches were the Philistines’ envy, and Jacob’s blessings had Esau’s hatred.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Envy
There is a method in man’s wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Evil, Wickedness
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Appreciation, Gratitude, Wealth, Blessings, Profit
Tell me not of the fire and the worm, and the blackness and darkness of hell.—To my terrified conscience there is hell enough in this representation of it, that it is the common sewer of all that is abominable and abandoned and reckless as to principle, and depraved as to morals, the one common eddy where all things that are polluted and wretched and filthy are gathered together.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Hell
There is an hour in each man’s life appointed to make his happiness, if then he seize it.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Opportunity
Without emulation we sink into meanness, or mediocrity, for nothing great or excellent can be done without it.
—Francis Beaumont
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Confidence
Calamity is man’s true touchstone.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Trouble
Where there is no difference in men’s worths, titles are all jests.
—Francis Beaumont
Topics: Titles
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