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It is the lot of man but once to die.

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
Dies
Men
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Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
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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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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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Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self and use him so if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so.
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God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.
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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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Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels where pride rides, there shame lackeys.
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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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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
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Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase but, hoarded up, they perish.
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
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In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell the husk often tells you what the kernel is.
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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
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Other vices make their own way this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
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Knowledge descries wisdom applies.
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Of all vices take heed of drunkenness other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
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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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Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.
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Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.
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