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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.


Francis Beaumont

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GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
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N.K. JEMISIN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
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DEYTH BANGER Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
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KILROY J. OLDSTER They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
SUZANNE COLLINS We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
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ETHAN SUPLEE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
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THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
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GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
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GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
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SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
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NATALIE URQUIETA It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
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C. JOYBELL C. Those who worry stumble long The Way.
Those who pray have no time to stray.
ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
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J.D. SALINGER Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
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THE WEEKND I'm the most boring person to talk to.
THE WEEKND Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
THE TALMUD He who promises runs in debt.
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THE TALMUD Who is wise? One who learns from all.
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THE TALMUD Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, y...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT You are no better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT 'Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a m...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, / And sweet thyme true, / Primrose, first born child of Ver, / ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cin...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Upon my buried body lie / Lightly, gentle earth.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT As men / Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, / After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is always good/ When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Bad's the best of us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT But what is past my help is past my care.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Kiss till the cow comes home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's Right Honorable
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will; 'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty a...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil! ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER After supper walk a mile.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER What mare's nest hast thou found?
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Hit the nail on the head.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I find the medicine worse than the malady.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Charity and treating begin at home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let them learn first to show pity at home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense of tranquility which religion fai...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Beggars must be no choosers.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Death hath so many doors to let out life.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well; and...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Hunger is sharper than the sword.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water. [Fr., L'injure se grave e...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Deeds, not words.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Something given that way.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER This is a pretty flimflam.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER No better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; a...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I care not twopence.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise: At least be more than I was; and be sure You cr...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nose, nose, holly red nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose? Nutmegs and ginger, cinammo...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme! Who shall...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know That what was worn some tw...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Kiss till the cows come home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks Brothers and sisters lawful...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A civil habit Oft covers a good man.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER My dancing days are done.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Evil beginning houres may end in good.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hem...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER But they that are above Have ends in everything.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER What's one man's poison, signior, Is another's meat or drink.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Calamity is man's true touch-stone. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where h...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance, But never out of judgment.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER One foot in the grave.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look, Look what thou h...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A soul as white as Heaven.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Sing a song of sixpence.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, fo...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It would talk; Lord, how it talked!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let's meet and either do or die.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He shall have chariots easier than air, That I will have invented; . . . And thyself, That art...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;-- ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll put that in my considering cap.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let the world slide.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Whistle, and she'll come to you.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He comes not in my books.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll have a fling.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-...
CHARLES BEAUMONT Maurice made a massive contribution to all the teams he played for. He had a huge heart and will be ...
BILL BEAUMONT Maurice was a powerful and very athletic rugby player who made a massive contribution to the clubs h...
BILL BEAUMONT The lads say my bum is the equivalent of one 'Erica
BILL BEAUMONT I've gotten to saying that the irony is pretty thick around here.
JAY BEAUMONT They'll have to figure out a way to bring water into Pine Bush from the rest of Crawford.
JAY BEAUMONT That's been our Achilles this year. In three conference losses, we've had 23 errors. It makes it dif...
MIKE BEAUMONT These girls are a tight group. They just support each other and they do not panic. They make mistake...
MIKE BEAUMONT We but the ball in play a lot tonight. We had a great game plan coming in tonight — we were going t...
MICHAEL BEAUMONT If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
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 FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
 FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
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 FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
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 FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
 FRANCIS Why slander we the times? What crimes Have days and years, that we Thus charge them with...
DR. JOSEPH BEAUMONT Calamity is man's true touchstone.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER sometimes the most simple things in the world can be the most beautiful.
ROWENA BEAUMONT CHERRY 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 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 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 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 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