"Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can……" — Francis Quarles
"Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason."
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71 Quotes by Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles has 71 quotes on this site.
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The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
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Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives…
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Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred,…
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Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.
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Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.
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Wickedness is its own punishment.
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If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.
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Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they…
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As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice,…
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He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but…
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Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity.…
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Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both alike required;Our Gods forgotten,…
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This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to…
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the…
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His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse...
— William Shakespeare
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By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature…
— Fatema Mernissi
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However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is…
— Bill McKibben
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People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the…
— Isak Dinesen
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
— Boethius
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To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but…
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