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Divine Fancies (1632), Book 3, § 54: "On Faith and Reason".

— Francis Quarles

Reason can discover
Things only near; sees nothing that's above her.

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The next way home's the farthest way about.

Emblems (1635)

Death aims with fouler spite
At fairer marks.

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
His life a blaze or two, and ends.

Hos ego versiculos (1629)

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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