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God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

Francis Quarles

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Francis Quarles
Age: 52 †
Born: 1592
Born: May 8
Died: 1644
Died: September 8
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Too much is a vanity enough is a feast.
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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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Scandal breeds hatred hatred begets division division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.
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Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
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