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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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Heaven
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The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.
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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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Let grace conduct thee to the paths of peace.
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The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.
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Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
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Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger not before:After deliverance, both alike requiredOur Gods forgotten, and our Souldiers slighted.
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They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it that encourages, this compels and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.
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Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.
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The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give but earth can give no rest.
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Thy ignorance in unrevealed mysteries is the mother of a saving faith, and thy understanding in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred knowledge understand not therefore that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand understanding is the wages of a lively faith and faith is the reward of an humble ignorance.
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Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.
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With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.
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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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If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.
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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.
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Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation and honor the reward of action.
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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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Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.
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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
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