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Quotes from Emblems — Francis Quarles

d. 1644 England

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The next way home's the farthest way about.

Emblems (1635)

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

Emblems (1635)

The road to resolution lies by doubt:
The next way home's the farthest way about.

Emblems (1635)

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Emblems (1635)

And what’s a life? The flourishing array
Of the proud summer-meadow, which to-day
Wears her green plush, and is to-morrow hay.

Emblems (1634)

This 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.

Emblems (1635)

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold!
Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

Emblems (1638)

Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.

Emblems (1635)

We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil;
We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

Emblems (1635)

Sweet Phosphor, bring the day
Whose conquering ray
May chase these fogs;
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Light will repay
The wrongs of night;
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!

Emblems (1635)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Francis Quarles (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.