Desire Quote by Francis Beaumont Download Open image “The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.” — Francis Beaumont ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Too much Way
Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Sometimes to gain something that is worth having, it becomes necessary to lose everything else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise. — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us. — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
“My hard fortunes Deserve not scorn; for I was never proud When they were good.” — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image