Reason can discover Things only near; sees nothing that's a… - Francis Quarles

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Reason can discover
Things only near; sees nothing that's above her.

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

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

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

Reason can discover Things only near; sees nothing that's above her. - Francis Quarles

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