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• Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

  John Fletcher

  Power, Everlasting Love, Lasting Love

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• Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.

  John Fletcher

  Stars, Men, Light

  Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont (1811). “The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: Printed from the Text”, p.88

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• O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

  John Fletcher

  Perfect, Devil, Distraction

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, James Shirley (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Laws of candy. False one. Little French lawyer. Tragedy of Valentinian. Monsieur Thomas”, p.416

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• Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man,
  Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late.
  Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

  John Fletcher

  Stars, Fall, Angel

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1840). “The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher”, p.499

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• Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.

  John Fletcher

  Music, Singing, Faces

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1840). “The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher”, p.548

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• Charity and treating begin at home.

  John Fletcher

  Home, Charity

  "Wit without Money". Book by John Fletcher, 1639.

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• Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.

  John Fletcher

  Dream, Grief, Sadness

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Prophetess. Queen of Corinth. Tragedy of Bonduca. Knight of the Burning Pestle”, p.240

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• O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.

  John Fletcher

  War, Blood, People

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• Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

  John Fletcher

  Brother, Sleep, Care

  'Valentinian' (performed c.1610-14) act 5, sc. 7 'Song'

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