Francis Quarles Short Quotes

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A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear.

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Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.

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Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double.

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We'll cry both arts and learning down,
And hey! then up go we!

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Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

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If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

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Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

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The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

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I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

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Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.

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Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

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

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No man is born unto himself alone;
Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

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Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.

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Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap.

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He that loves thee, He that keeps
And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.

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The road to resolution lies by doubt:
The next way home's the farthest way about.

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To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

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The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

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Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.

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The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

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Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

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The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

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Man is man's A.B.C. There is none that can
Read God aright, unless he first spell Man.

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

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Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

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

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We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil;
We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

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Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

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Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

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