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Francis Quarles
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“No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) first seen 1621 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Esther (1621), Sec. 1, Meditation 1.
“The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that has no cross deserves no crown.”
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Recorded in: Esther (1621), Sec. 9, Meditation 9.
“Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) first seen 1629 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Authour's Dreame (1629).
“Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends.”
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Recorded in: Hos ego versiculos (1629).
“Reason can discover Things only near; sees nothing that's above her.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) first seen 1632 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Divine Fancies (1632), Book 3, § 54: "On Faith and Reason".
“He that loves thee, He that keeps And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) first seen 1632 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Divine Fancies (1632), Book 4, § 2: "A Goodnight".
“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.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) first seen 1635 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram. Respice Finem (1635).
“Thou art my life, my way, my light”
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Recorded in: Why dost thou Shade thy Lovely Face? (1635).
“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 (1592–1644) said by 1644 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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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“The world's an Inn; and I her guest.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) said by 1644 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks.”
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Recorded in: Divine Poems (ed. 1669). Compare: "Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v. line 1011.
“In having all things, and not Thee, what have I? Not having Thee, what have my labors got? Let me enjoy but Thee, what farther crave I? And having Thee alone, what have I not?”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) said by 1644 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 609.
“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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“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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“We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil; We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) said by 1644 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) said by 1644 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.”
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“The road to resolution lies by doubt: The next way home's the farthest way about.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) said by 1644 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The next way home's the farthest way about.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) said by 1644 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the lot of man but once to die.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) said by 1644 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) first seen 1640 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the Enchiridion (1640) of Francis Quarles.
Also quoted by: Benjamin Disraeli (misattributed)
“Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.”
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“Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true. Where lies are easily admitted the father of lies will not easily be excluded.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) said by 1644 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source