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Heav'n is not always got by running.

Francis Quarles

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Francis Quarles
Age: 52 †
Born: 1592
Born: May 8
Died: 1644
Died: September 8
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Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.
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Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions.
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Let grace conduct thee to the paths of peace.
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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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To fear death is the way to live long to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
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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.
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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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O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?
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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
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Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd: 'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit: And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d. He that bewails and not forsakes them too Confesses rather what he means to do.
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That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success.
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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.
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My mind's my kingdom.
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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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Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
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Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.
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Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.
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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
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Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better.
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