Quote #9

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

More from Francis Quarles

  1. Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.
  2. And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.
  3. Thou art my life, my way, my light
  4. 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 the…
  5. 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…
  6. The world's an Inn; and I her guest.
  7. He that loves thee, He that keeps And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.
  8. Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks.

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