Francis Quarles Quotes - Page 9

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• When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess thyself with true fear; when the devil brings thee oil, bring thou vinegar. The way to be safe is never to be secure.

  Francis Quarles

  Oil, Temptation, Devil

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.94

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• And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

  Francis Quarles

  Childhood, Age, One Day

  Francis Quarles (1807). “Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introd. by Reginalde Wolfe”, p.30

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• Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?

  Francis Quarles

  Flower, White, Perfect

  Francis Quarles, Christopher Harvey (1866). “Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man”, p.328

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

  Francis Quarles

  Son, Gold, Glitter

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• Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.

  Francis Quarles

  Neutrality, Prey, Dangerous

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.7

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• Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.

  Francis Quarles

  Kings, Obedience, Highways

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• Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

  Francis Quarles

  Lust, Vices, Spurs

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.213

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