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21 Francis Quarles Quotes

Francis Quarles writes plaintive, moral reflections on self, destiny and the burdens of life.

Francis Quarles quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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  6. My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

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  7. Thou art my life, my way, my light

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  8. Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.

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

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

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  11. Let all thy joys be as the month of May And all thy days be as a marriage day: Let sorrow, sickness, and a troubled mind Be stranger to thee.

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  12. The world's an Inn; and I her guest.

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  13. Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks.

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  14. This house is to be let for life or years; Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears. Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known, She must be dearly let, or let alone.

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  15. Sweet Phosphor, bring the day Whose conquering ray May chase these fogs; Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Light will repay The wrongs of night; Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!

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

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  17. Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.

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  18. The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

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

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  20. The next way home's the farthest way about.

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  21. It is the lot of man but once to die.

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