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Quotes from Francis Quarles

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.
~ Francis Quarles
God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.
~ Francis Quarles
Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.
~ Francis Quarles
No cross no crown.
~ Francis Quarles
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
~ Francis Quarles
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
~ Francis Quarles
The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.
~ Francis Quarles
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
~ Francis Quarles
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
~ Francis Quarles
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
~ Francis Quarles
Wickedness is its own punishment.
~ Francis Quarles
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
Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.
~ Francis Quarles
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.
~ Francis Quarles
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
~ Francis Quarles
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
~ Francis Quarles
That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success.
~ Francis Quarles
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
~ Francis Quarles
Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.
~ Francis Quarles
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.
~ Francis Quarles
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.
~ Francis Quarles
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
~ Francis Quarles
Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.
~ Francis Quarles
Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.
~ Francis Quarles