Francis Quarles - Glory Quotes

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Even such is man, whose glory lends
His life a blaze or two, and ends.

Francis Quarles

And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage,
Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage
With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Francis Quarles

Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone
Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.

Francis Quarles

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.

Francis Quarles

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

Francis Quarles

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

Francis Quarles

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

Francis Quarles