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• Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

  Francis Quarles

  Happiness, Success, Science

  'Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man' (1638) no. 4

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• He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

  Francis Quarles

  Generosity, Giving, Quality

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions--divine: Contemplative, Practical; Moral: Ethical, Œconomical, Political”, p.71

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• Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

  Francis Quarles

  Dresses, Language, Injury

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• Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence.

  Francis Quarles

  Fashion, Eye, Long

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.71

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• As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

  Francis Quarles

  Adversity, Loss, Gains

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• A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

  Francis Quarles

  Heart, Evil, Despair

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political”, p.22

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• Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

  Francis Quarles

  Men, Vanity, Secret

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political”, p.134

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• Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man.

  Francis Quarles

  Men, Self, Sea

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.85

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• If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.

  Francis Quarles

  Home, Heart, Enemy

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.76

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• If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Humble, Feet

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.81

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• Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.

  Francis Quarles

  Sweet, Men, Lust

  Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.213

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• Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

  Francis Quarles

  Pride, Vanity, Shame

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

  Francis Quarles

  Love, Charity, Faith In God

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

  Francis Quarles

  Peace, Peacemaker, Conqueror

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.17

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• The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

  Francis Quarles

  Philosophy, Height, Know Thyself

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• If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.

  Francis Quarles

  Children, Father, Parent

  "Enchiridion". Book by Francis Quarles. Book 3, XVIII, 1640-1641.

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• Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.

  Francis Quarles

  Beauty, Wise, Heart

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.57

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• Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better.

  Francis Quarles

  Fall, Degrees, May

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.44

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• Wickedness is its own punishment.

  Francis Quarles

  Punishment, Wickedness

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.47

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• Poor thieves in halters we behold;
  And great thieves in their chains of gold.

  Francis Quarles

  Gold, Thieves, Poor

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• If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

  Francis Quarles

  Mind, Desire, Want

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.33

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• Let grace conduct thee to the paths of peace.

  Francis Quarles

  Grace, Path, Thee

  Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.68

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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, and our Souldiers slighted.

  Francis Quarles

  God, Deliverance, Forgotten

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

  Francis Quarles

  Humility, Virtue, Reason

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 485, 1895.

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

  Francis Quarles

  Charity

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