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
May, Works, Though, Companions
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
- Francis Beaumont
Lovely, Nothing, Dainty, Melancholy
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
Deer, Cunning, Flock, Runs
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
- Francis Beaumont
Love, Sleep, Die, Sounder
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
- Francis Beaumont
Argument, More, Than, Injury
Kiss till the cow comes home.
- Francis Beaumont
Home, Cow, Till, Kiss
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
- Francis Beaumont
Man, Grows, Method, Wickedness
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
- Francis Beaumont
Desire, Never, Too, Gain
Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
- Francis Beaumont
Interest, Some, Makes, Blind
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