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

Francis Quarles

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Francis Quarles (baptised May 8, 1592, died September 8, 1644) was a prolific English prose-writer and poet. He is now best known for his Emblems (1638) and other moral and devotional verse.

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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.

Death aims with fouler spite
At fairer marks.

And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage,
Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage
With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

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

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