Francis Quarles Quotes

Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that has no cross deserves no crown.

He that loves thee, He that keeps
And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true. Where lies are easily admitted the father of lies will not easily be excluded.

The next way home's the farthest way about.

Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone
Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.

Thou art my life, my way, my light

This house is to be let for life or years;
Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears.
Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known,
She must be dearly let, or let alone.

The world's an Inn; and I her guest.

Let all thy joys be as the month of May
And all thy days be as a marriage day:
Let sorrow, sickness, and a troubled mind
Be stranger to thee.

The road to resolution lies by doubt:
The next way home's the farthest way about.

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

Even such is man, whose glory lends
His life a blaze or two, and ends.