Francis Quarles Quotes - Page 1

• Francis Quarles / Poet

No cross no crown.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

My mind's my kingdom.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Afflictions clarify the soul.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Toyish airs please trivial ears.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Wickedness is its own punishment.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

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

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Heav'n is not always got by running.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

It is the lot of man but once to die.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

He that begins to live, begins to die.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

The next way home's the farthest way about.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Let grace conduct thee to the paths of peace.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

When two agree in their desire, One sparke will set them both on fire.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.