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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
— Francis Quarles
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
— Francis Quarles
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
— Francis Quarles
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
— Francis Quarles
I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.
— Francis Quarles
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
— Francis Quarles
Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double.
— Francis Quarles
The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
— Francis Quarles
God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.
— Francis Quarles
Reason can discover things only near,sees nothing that's above her. — Francis Quarles
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
— Francis Quarles
The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.
— Francis Quarles
I like the pooch. When I've had a dog's snout in my mouth, we tend to develop a special bond.
— Randy Quarles
Knowing this was the same man from last night now clad again in his hunky knightly armor was a strange aphrodisiac. Yeah, a hot look, no denying.
— Angela Quarles
In addition to her Curtsey-No-Contraction mantra, she needed to add a No-Ogling-the-Period-Hunks policy.
— Angela Quarles
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
— Francis Quarles
Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.
— Francis Quarles
The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.
— Francis Quarles
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.
— Francis Quarles
The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.
— Francis Quarles
Let grace conduct thee to the paths of peace.
— Francis Quarles
The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.
— Francis Quarles
The world's an Inn; and I her guest.
— Francis Quarles
Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow/my least desires unto the least remove
— Audrey Niffenegger
Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.
— Francis Quarles
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
— Francis Quarles
Afflictions clarify the soul.
— Francis Quarles
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
— Francis Quarles
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
— Francis Quarles
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.
— Francis Quarles
The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.
— Francis Quarles
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
— Francis Quarles
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
— Francis Quarles
Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.
— Francis Quarles
Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.
— Francis Quarles
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
— Francis Quarles
How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?
— Francis Quarles
With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.
— Francis Quarles
You will be the death of me, woman.
— Angela Quarles
He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.
— Francis Quarles
Wham. She glommed onto him like white plastic on a Stormtrooper, shamelessly pressing against his body, groping and kissing.
— Angela Quarles
O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it,That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute? — Francis Quarles
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
— Francis Quarles
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
— Francis Quarles
To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
— Francis Quarles
Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.
— Francis Quarles
It is the lot of man but once to die.
— Francis Quarles
Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.
— Francis Quarles
Heav'n is not always got by running.
— Francis Quarles
Afflictions clarify the soul;And like hard masters, give more hard directions,
Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. — Francis Quarles
Let all thy joys be as the month of May.
— Francis Quarles
To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.
— Francis Quarles
It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.
— Francis Quarles
He crushed her mouth in a searing, hungry kiss. A kiss that made her stomach drop away.
— Angela Quarles
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
— Francis Quarles
Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.
— Francis Quarles
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
— Francis Quarles
Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.
— Francis Quarles
Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?
— Francis Quarles
Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.
— Francis Quarles
The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
— Francis Quarles
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it ...
— Francis Quarles
My mind is my kingdom.
— Francis Quarles
Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.
— Francis Quarles
The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.
— Francis Quarles
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.
— Francis Quarles
Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.
— Francis Quarles
My mind's my kingdom.
— Francis Quarles
The next way home's the farthest way about.
— Francis Quarles
The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
— Francis Quarles
What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.
— Francis Quarles
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.
— Francis Quarles
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
— Francis Quarles
Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.
— Francis Quarles
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.
— Francis Quarles
And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.
— Francis Quarles
Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.
— Francis Quarles
I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.
— Francis Quarles
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
— Francis Quarles
Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.
— Francis Quarles
Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
— Francis Quarles
If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.
— Francis Quarles
Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
— Francis Quarles
If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.
— Francis Quarles
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
— Francis Quarles
A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.
— Francis Quarles
Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.
— Francis Quarles
What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.
— Francis Quarles
He that begins to live, begins to die.
— Francis Quarles
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.
— Francis Quarles
Wickedness is its own punishment.
— Francis Quarles
