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Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee man's love to God is nothing but a faint reflection of God's love to man.
Francis Quarles
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Francis Quarles
Age: 52 †
Born: 1592
Born: May 8
Died: 1644
Died: September 8
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Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
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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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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation and honor the reward of action.
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In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
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O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words whose smoke is infamy whose ashes are uncleanness whose end is hell.
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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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Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah the world's a trap.
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Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.
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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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The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
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The goods we spend we keep and what we save We lose and only what we lose we have.
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Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
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If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.
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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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