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Francis Quarles Quotes (1592-1644)
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About Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles (baptised May 8, 1592, died September 8, 1644) was a prolific English prose-writer and poet. He is now best known for his Emblems (1638) and other moral and devotional verse.
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βReason can discover
Things only near; sees nothing that's above her.β
Things only near; sees nothing that's above her.β
βThe road to resolution lies by doubt:
The next way home's the farthest way about.β
The next way home's the farthest way about.β
βThe slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.β
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.β
βAnd what's a life? A weary pilgrimage,
Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage
With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.β
Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage
With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.β
βMy 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.β
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.β
βThis 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.β
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.β
βThis 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.β
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.β
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Francis Quarles on Epitaphs 3 quotes
βShe wasβbut room forbids to tell thee whatβ Sum all perfection up, and she wasβthat.β
Francis Quarles on Death 2 quotes
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βThe sun-observing marigold.β
Francis Quarles on Marigolds
βThe sun-observing marigold.β
Francis Quarles on English proverbs (alphabetically by proverb)
Francis Quarles on Hound
Francis Quarles on Merit
βThe sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.β
Francis Quarles on Reason
Francis Quarles on Ownership
Francis Quarles on Bliss
Francis Quarles on Man
Francis Quarles on Debt
βThe slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance with greater ease than made.β
Francis Quarles on Mammon
Francis Quarles on Day
Francis Quarles on Intemperance
Francis Quarles on Lilies
Francis Quarles on Luxury
Francis Quarles on Mercy
Francis Quarles on Meadow
βAnd whatβs a life? The flourishing array Of the proud summer-meadow, which to-day Wears her green plush, and is to-morrow hay.β
Francis Quarles on Ambition
Francis Quarles on Heart
βThe 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.β
Francis Quarles on Medicine
βPhysicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.β
About Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles (baptised May 8, 1592, died September 8, 1644) was a prolific English prose-writer and poet. He is now best known for his Emblems (1638) and other moral and devotional verse.