The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perc… - Francis Quarles

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

Francis Quarles

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About Francis Quarles

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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We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil;
We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

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

In having all things, and not Thee, what have I?
Not having Thee, what have my labors got?
Let me enjoy but Thee, what farther crave I?
And having Thee alone, what have I not?

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

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