Francis Quarles Quotes

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• The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

  Francis Quarles

  Average, Ears, Reputation

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• Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

  Francis Quarles

  Wisdom, Cards, Literature

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• I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

  Francis Quarles

  Reading, Writing, Wish

  'Emblems' (1635) 'To the Reader'

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• If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

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  Exercise, Soul, Fasting

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• 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.

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  Anger, Power, Long

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• If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

  Francis Quarles

  Mind, Desire, Want

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.33

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• Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, how to be free from it, that's the point. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

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  Fearless, Becoming, Action

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• I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.

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  Sweat, Smell, Virtue

  Francis Quarles (1857). “Emblems: Divine and Moral”, p.120

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• Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

  Francis Quarles

  Hatred, Division, Scandal

  Francis Quarles (1681). “Enchiridion: containing institutions, divine ... moral”, p.49

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• It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

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  Happiness, Long, Enough

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.49

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• Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.

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  Sweet, Men, Lust

  Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.213

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• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

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  Friendship, Sweet, Lying

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• God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening epilogue and thy morning prologue; practice to make him thy last thought at night when thou sleepest, and thy first thought in the morning when thou awakest; so shall thy fancy be sanctified in the night, and thy understanding rectified in the day; so shall thy rest be peaceful, thy labors prosperous, thy life pious, and thy death glorious.

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  God, Morning, Night

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political”, p.59

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• The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

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  Perseverance, Lying, Doubt

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• 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.

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  Love, God, Heart

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• O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

  Francis Quarles

  Pride, Fire, Flames

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.223

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• That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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  Friendship, Genuine Friends, Literature

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• 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.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, Heart, Literature

  'Emblems' (1635) bk. 1, no. 12 'Hugo de Anima'

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• The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts,
  Our deeds, are characters of several sizes.
  Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults
  The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises.
  Death is the common Press, from whence being driven,
  We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven.

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  Character, House, Heaven

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• Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

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  Revenge, Blood, Sweat

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.15

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• After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

  Francis Quarles

  Years, Brain, Spanish Harlem

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• Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

  Francis Quarles

  Vanity, Too Much, Abstinence

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions--divine: Contemplative, Practical; Moral: Ethical, Œconomical, Political”, p.112

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• He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

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  Generosity, Giving, Quality

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions--divine: Contemplative, Practical; Moral: Ethical, Œconomical, Political”, p.71

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• As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

  Francis Quarles

  Adversity, Loss, Gains

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• Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

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  Men, Vanity, Secret

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political”, p.134

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