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d. 1644 England
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.
Also known as: Quarles, Quarles, Francis
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The next way home's the farthest way about.
Emblems (1635)
Death aims with fouler spite
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.
Enchiridion (1640)
Even such is man, whose glory lends
Hos ego versiculos (1629)
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
The hindmost hound oft takes the doubling hare.
Divine Emblems (1635)
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
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.
The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,
Emblems (1635)
The road to resolution lies by doubt:
Emblems (1635)
He that loves thee, He that keeps
Divine Fancies (1632)
No man is born unto himself alone;
Esther (1621)
It is the lot of man but once to die.
Emblems (1635)
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
Esther (1621)
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
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.
The world's an Inn; and I her guest.
A lamb appears a lion, and we fear
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