And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
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Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn...
FRANCIS THOMPSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES She'd put her teeth in his heart, long ago, and he'd left the print there, evidence that he wanted h...
LAUREN GILLEY I like things to be quite poppy, quite graphic -- it's quite a London sensibility. I'm not looking f...
LUELLA BARTLEY Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.
MEGAN FOX Sarcasm is lost in print.
JON CRYER Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.
KRISTEN SCHAAL With a face like mine, I do better in print.
JERRY SPRINGER Cam … would you do something for me?”
“Anything.”
“Could you find some of that...
LISA KLEYPAS He just kind of sits there, and he sleeps a lot. Poppy is being really good with him.
JESSICA HARDY There was a bit of a backlash against Francis at that point,
MATT DILLON I stood up in a flash and flushed a light shade of furious.
J.L. MCCOY You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS [As professionals, print buyers need to understand all aspects of the production process: mechanical...
FRANK ROMANO You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
LISA KLEYPAS I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journal...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.
FRANK DELANEY There was a big foot print on the back door. They kicked it in.
KATHY LEREW If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS It's just a misfortunate because I think he could've been where Thompson is, had he not got an infec...
BILL PARCELLS Thompson threw more punches, judged distance better and got hit cleanly with only one punch. It was ...
STEVE FARHOOD Steve Francis wasn't playing like the Steve Francis we all know. I think he'll show the real Steve i...
DESHAWN STEVENSON Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
MICHAEL JACKSON Mike made an accusation in closed session, and Dr. Thompson replied,
DAVID KELLEY There's a similar story with St. Francis and the wolf. The wolf was terrorizing a village, eating ki...
BETTY STREETT [Thompson] is a very strong leader.
MATTHEW LEWIS What a shot by Alex Thompson!
STEVE ALFORD Tristan was great, but if [Thompson] got by, the rest of the team was there to help.
LENNY JEFFERSON We thought we'd have an opportunity to cross-examine Mr. Thompson. Almost every witness in the proce...
JEFFERY WICKS I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that.
ANDREA THOMPSON The poppy opes her scarlet purse of dreams.
SCHARMEL IRIS And would it not be proud romance
Falling in some obscure advance,
To rise, a poppy field of F...
WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.
FULTON JOHN SHEEN The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.
FULTON J. SHEEN The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITS He was fine with her (Poppy).
JESSICA HARDY Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.
ELISABETH SHUE I became a Christian within a fundamentalist church. I saw 'A Thief in the Night' on a 16 mm...
SCOTT DERRICKSON If Corey Grantham is standing face to face with Dre, it's really face to chest. Tory Thompson has th...
LOUIS JORDAN I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW Most kids don't realize the ramifications of leaving yourself out there. Because once it's there, it...
DAN TOTH Now you've got Saddam in a position where he's either been flushed or he's been forced to go back [u...
JOSEPH WILSON Paul Duff had a decent day and A.J. Thompson is coming along.
DAVID GRANT Print: to see one's name in print! - Some people commit a crime for no other reason
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Thompson was involved in the world of jazz. Jazz musicians were interested in his work, and he in th...
CURTIS CARTER I think that the Internet and print behave in a complementary manner.
HUBERT BURDA We lost our top runner and had to move Travis Thompson from wingback to tailback. And we were going ...
LOU GEARY Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Swedish meatballs were the favorite, and the 'Happy Birthday, Poppy' cake with cream cheese frosting...
ABBY WHITE I think (Thompson) understands that.
GREG MCDERMOTT Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth...
EVAN HUNTER I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
VANCE JOY Find me next a Poppy posy,
Type of his harangues so dozy.
THOMAS MOORE It's the old story. The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
HOWARD STRONG I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed!
The flower of Mercy! that within its heart
Doth keep...
MARY A. BARR I was surprised. Poppy was already cleaning him.
JESSICA HARDY I think the record paints a nice picture of what I'm about, all the different elements. It's a nice ...
BO BICE People brought Poppy gifts. Bones and biscuits and toys. Everybody had a blast, including the dogs w...
ABBY WHITE Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates t...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates t...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1...
MARTIN SCORSESE My problem was with the process and not Jim Francis.
MARK SINATRO we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Caitlin is getting comfortable playing in first singles and settling into the position. She played w...
CHUCK MERZBACHER For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I saw (Thompson) was covering him -- when I saw that I gave him a signal that I wanted to go there. ...
JAKE DELHOMME You give No. 18 (Thompson) a half an inch and she's going to score.
KEVIN CASSIDY Prosecutors are seeking for Thompson to remain in detention pending trial because they consider him ...
MICHAEL DREWNIAK At half past one in the morning, three sides of Union Square were in flames. The fourth side, where ...
JACK LONDON There is a continuous stream of opinions on governance issues expressed daily, not only in our Parli...
ANTHONY CARMONA There are some significant differences between the top category searches in print versus online Yell...
LARRY SMALL There are some significant differences between the top category searches in print versus online Yell...
LARRY SMALL It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA It appears that Thompson was carried down the hill where he struck a tree and was buried in approxim...
FRANK ROGERS The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT Francis is back in the 20 and we'll see how he goes during the course of the week.
DANIEL ANDERSON Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
UNKNOWN HISTORY STUDENT He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
CHARLES V My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
VICTORIA GOTTI We were called The Toilets originally we were flushed with success.
MIKE PETERS We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.
MIKE PETERS We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States ...
J. C. CHANDOR It's a tougher-edged album — less poppy and a little more rock. It's a playful mix of the differen...
JONATHAN CAIN Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-o...
JEFF LEMIRE In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the t...
MARK BURNETT The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be...
EUGENE KENNEDY The same is true on Thompson and Auburn (lakes). Typically, the ice doesn't go out for weeks... If o...
FRANCIS BRAUTIGAM February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Bryant Thompson shaves his arms before the games he pitches.
ERIC WOMACK I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll
ELTON JOHN I think that Francis Marion did the same.
GARY HALL One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollar...
JONAH PERETTI She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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More Francis Thompson
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON There is no expeditious road
To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flow...
FRANCIS THOMPSON So for thy spirit did devise
Its Maker seemly garniture,
Of its own essence parcel pure.--
...
FRANCIS THOMPSON She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
...
FRANCIS THOMPSON I was heavy with the even,
When she lit her glimmering tapers
Round the day's dead sanctities....
FRANCIS THOMPSON Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn...
FRANCIS THOMPSON The Summer looks out from her brazen tower,
Through the flashing bars of July.
FRANCIS THOMPSON But lilies, stolen from grassy mold,
No more curled state unfold,
Translated to a vase of gold...
FRANCIS THOMPSON The immortal could we cease to contemplate,
The mortal part suggests its every trait.
God laid...
FRANCIS THOMPSON In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
FRANCIS THOMPSON The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air, That Time's hoary wings grow youn...
FRANCIS THOMPSON I do not believe that Nature has a heart; and I suspect that, like many another beauty, she has been...
FRANCIS THOMPSON An atheist is a man who believes himself to be an accident
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And p...
FRANCIS THOMPSON All things by immortal power,
Near and Far
Hiddenly
To each other linked are,
That t...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet./ And all the things are made young with young des...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Happiness is the shadow of things past, Wich fools still take for that which is to be!
FRANCIS THOMPSON Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?
All which I took from the...
FRANCIS G. THOMPSON If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
FRANCIS “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
FRANCIS Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
FRANCIS QUARLES Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
FRANCIS PICABIA The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON All beliefs are bald ideas.
FRANCIS PICABIA Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
FRANCIS KEPPEL Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from when...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
FRANCIS CHAN Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
FRANCIS BACON No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
FRANCIS BACON Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
FRANCIS BACON Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
FRANCIS BACON The essence of a man is found in his faults.
FRANCIS PICABIA Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
FRANCIS PICABIA Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, a...
FRANCIS QUARLES To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
FRANCIS BACON Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
FRANCIS BACON Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
FRANCIS BACON All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from...
FRANCIS BACON It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
FRANCIS BACON There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil...
FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma...
FRANCIS LOCKIER Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...
CLARENCE FRANCIS Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
FRANCIS BACON Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
FRANCIS BACON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
FRANCIS QUARLES If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the...
FRANCIS BACON Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
FRANCIS PICABIA To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr...
FRANCIS QUARLES Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
FRANCIS PICABIA If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
FRANCIS QUARLES My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
FRANCIS PICABIA Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
FRANCIS PICABIA Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
FRANCIS QUARLES He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
FRANCIS QUARLES Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ...
FRANCIS BACON People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and ...
FRANCIS BACON Science is but an image of the truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and co...
FRANCIS BACON Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
FRANCIS BACON Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortun...
FRANCIS QUARLES Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
FRANCIS BACON The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
FRANCIS BACON He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
FRANCIS BACON Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON All colors will agree in the dark.
FRANCIS BACON Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far...
FRANCIS BACON It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
FRANCIS BACON