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Francis Quarles Quotes

«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.»
«That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end»
Author: Francis Quarles (Poet) | Keywords: begun, continue
«The road to perseverance lies by doubt.»
Author: Francis Quarles (Poet) | Keywords: lay-by, perseverance
«My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play»
«Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the w»
«My mind's my kingdom.»
Author: Francis Quarles (Poet) | Keywords: kingdom, mind
«The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely penned, And all the errata will appear at the end»
Author: Francis Quarles (Poet) | About: Books, World | Keywords: divinely, falsely, penned, printed, writ
«And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age»
«Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.»
Author: Francis Quarles (Poet) | About: Meditation | Keywords: Action The
«Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted»

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