Quote #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.

More from Francis Quarles

  1. He that loves thee, He that keeps And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.
  2. Thou art my life, my way, my light
  3. Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends.
  4. Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.
  5. Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
  6. Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.
  7. The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that has no cross deserves no crown.
  8. 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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