"Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears."

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Source : 'Poetical Miscellanies' (1633) 'An Hymn'

Phineas Fletcher

#Fear Quotes #Eye Quotes #Feet Quotes

“If it's possible to be in a good situation replacing a legend, he's in a good situation.”
“Life happens at intersections.”
“King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.”
“The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.”
“What a curious power words have.”

Source : Tadeusz Borowski (1976). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Jealousy always gets the best of me.”
“Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?”
“Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!”

Source : Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.117, University of Illinois Press

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