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Quotes from Francis Quarles

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
~ Francis Quarles
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
~ Francis Quarles
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
~ Francis Quarles
It is the lot of man but once to die.
~ Francis Quarles
How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?
~ Francis Quarles
Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.
~ Francis Quarles
No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
~ Francis Quarles
Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.
~ Francis Quarles
The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.
~ Francis Quarles
For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!
~ Francis Quarles
If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.
~ Francis Quarles
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
~ Francis Quarles
Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.
~ Francis Quarles
Let grace conduct thee to the paths of peace.
~ Francis Quarles
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.
~ Francis Quarles
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
~ Francis Quarles
The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.
~ Francis Quarles
He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.
~ Francis Quarles
The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
~ Francis Quarles
I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.
~ Francis Quarles
Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both alike required;Our Gods forgotten, and our Souldiers slighted.
~ Francis Quarles
Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.
~ Francis Quarles
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
~ Francis Quarles
Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.
~ Francis Quarles