Francis Quarles Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

  Francis Quarles

  Perseverance, Lying, Doubt

• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

  Francis Quarles

  Friendship, Sweet, Lying

• The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

  Francis Quarles

  Lying, Bed, Crowns

• See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.

  Francis Quarles

  Lying, Shadow, May

  Francis Quarles (1777). “Emblems”, p.87

• To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Lying, Long

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