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My mind's my kingdom.

Francis Quarles

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Francis Quarles
Age: 52 †
Born: 1592
Born: May 8
Died: 1644
Died: September 8
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Havering
Kingdom
Kingdoms
Mind

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Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged slight it, and the work is begun forgive it, and it is finished he is below himself that is not above an injury.
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I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.
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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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Put off thy cares with thy clothes so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.
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No man is born unto himself alone Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
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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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See, here's a shadow found the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.
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We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.
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Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
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