Francis Quarles Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• 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 for it.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, Heart, Literature

  'Emblems' (1635) bk. 1, no. 12 'Hugo de Anima'

• If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, God, Heart

• Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, Charity, Faith In God

• Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, Crush, Hate

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.39

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