Best Francis Quarles Sayings
- The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were. Average
- Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. Charity
- My mind's my kingdom. Inspirational
- That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. Begun
- Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. Act
- Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. Bad
- The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient… Desireth
- Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue. Ear
- Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. Bastard
- Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action. Action
- Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.' Enjoyment
- Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. Human Nature
- Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. Care
- Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what… Avoided
- Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Advantage
- And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. Beds
- The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. Merit
- It is the lot of man but once to die. Die
- No cross no crown. Cross
- 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… Adore
- 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
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