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• Revenge proves it's own executioner.

  John Ford

  Revenge, Executioners, Prove It

  John Ford, William Gifford (1827). “The Dramatic Works”, p.329

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• Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

  John Ford

  Forgiving, Endurance, Bears

  John Ford (2014). “'Tis Pity She's a Whore”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

  John Ford

  Freedom, Toil, Strive

  John Ford (1811). “John Ford's Dramatic Works”, p.139

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• Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

  John Ford

  Giving, Contentment, Crowns

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• Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

  John Ford

  Men, Clothes, Physicians

  John Ford (1985). “The Lover's Melancholy”, p.66, Manchester University Press

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• Diamonds cut diamonds.

  John Ford

  Cutting, Diamond

  John Ford (1985). “The Lover's Melancholy”, p.71, Manchester University Press

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• A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.

  John Ford

  Single Life, Maintenance, Yoke

  John Ford, Alexander Dyce, William Gifford (1965). “Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble”

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• They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

  John Ford

  Grief, Heart, Cutting

  John Ford, Terence John Bew Spencer (1980). “The Broken Heart”, p.34, Manchester University Press

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• Love is a tyrant, resisted.

  John Ford

  Best Love, Love Is, Tyrants

  John Ford (1831). “The Dramatic Works of John Ford: The lover's melancholy. The broken heart. Perkin Warbeck”, p.23

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• Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
  Locked in endless dreams,
  The extremes of all extremes,
  Ope no more, for now Love dies.

  John Ford

  Dream, Grief, Eye

  John Ford (1995). “The lover's melancholy: The broken heart ; 'Tis pity she's a whore ; Perkin Warbeck”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

  John Ford

  Spring, Tree, Growth

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• Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

  John Ford

  Looks, Tailors, Creation

  John Ford (1811). “The Dramatic Works of John Ford”, p.134

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• Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

  John Ford

  Time, Fate, Sea

  "Tis Pity She's a Whore' (1633) act 5, sc. 4

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• He hath shook hands with time.

  John Ford

  Time, Hands

  'The Broken Heart' (1633) act 5, sc. 2

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