John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2085 John Flether 1579-1625 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2085 |
| AUTHOR: | John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
| QUOTATION: | 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 our angels are, or good or ill, 1 Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Upon an “Honest Man’s Fortune.” |
| Note 1. Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.—Robert Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part i. sect. 2, memb. 1, subsect. 2. Burton also quotes Anthony Rusca in this connection, v. xviii. [back] |