Best Quotes by Francis Quarles (Top 10)
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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
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The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
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Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
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Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
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The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
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Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
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More Francis Quarles Quotes
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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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Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
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If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.
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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.
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What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.
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Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
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