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The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? Diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? Divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Tis vain to flee; till gentle mercy show her better eye, the farther off we go, the swing of justice deals the mightier blow (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Like to the falling of a star,... Like to the damask rose you see, or like the blossom of the tree (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Our God and soldier we alike adore, when at the brink of ruin, not before; after deliverance both alike requited, our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted (Francis Quarles Quotes)
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses (Francis Quarles Quotes)
We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, we progress, and we prog from pole to pole (Francis Quarles Quotes)
She was - but room forbids to tell thee what - sum all perfection up, and she was - that (Francis Quarles Quotes)
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Man is man's a, b, c. There's none that can read God aright, unless he first spell man (Francis Quarles Quotes)
What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold (Francis Quarles Quotes)
O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, that gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute? (Francis Quarles Quotes)
See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, to catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys (Francis Quarles Quotes)
The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind (Francis Quarles Quotes)
O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell (Francis Quarles Quotes)
As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great (Francis Quarles Quotes)
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent (Francis Quarles Quotes)
To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit (Francis Quarles Quotes)
To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying (Francis Quarles Quotes)
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted (Francis Quarles Quotes)