All Quotes by Francis Quarles
“The world's an Inn; and I her guest.”
“In having all things, and not Thee, what have I?And having Thee alone, what have I not?”
“We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil;We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.”
“Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.”
“This house is to be let for life or years;She must be dearly let, or let alone.”
“The road to resolution lies by doubt:The next way home's the farthest way about.”
“It is the lot of man but once to die.”
“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.”
“Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.”
“Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true. Where lies are easily admitted the father of lies will not easily be excluded.”
“Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.”
“Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.”
“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.”
“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.”
“If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.”
“Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.”
“Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.”
“My mind's my kingdom.”
“No man is born unto himself alone;Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.”
“The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,And he that has no cross deserves no crown.”
“Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.”
“Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.”
“He that loves thee, He that keepsAnd guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.”
“My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on;Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.”
“Thou art my life, my way, my light”
“And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage,With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.”
“Let all thy joys be as the month of MayBe stranger to thee.”