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Francis Quarles

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Francis Quarles
Age: 52 †
Born: 1592
Born: May 8
Died: 1644
Died: September 8
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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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The world is deceitful her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.
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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
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No man is born unto himself alone Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
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Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.
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Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah the world's a trap.
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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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I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
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Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
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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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If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it if oppression found it, let repentance restore it if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
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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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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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Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.
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The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.
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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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Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain: the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
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After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
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