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

  Francis Quarles

  Neighbor, Equal, Values

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• Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

  Francis Quarles

  Leisure, Slave, Recreation

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• Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

  Francis Quarles

  Sin, Finished

  Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.205

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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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  Wedding, Blessing, Joy

  Francis Quarles (1726). “Argalus and Parthenia”, p.79

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• Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go seek for ease in hell, Or sprightly nectar from the mouths of asps. The world's a hive, From whence thou canst derive No good, but what thy soul's vexation brings: But case thou meet Some petty-petty sweet, Each drop is guarded with a thousand stings.

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  Sweet, Children, Soul

  Francis Quarles, Robert Wilson (A. M.) (1839). “Emblems divine and moral”, p.17

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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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  Daughter, Mother, Son

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• If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.

  Francis Quarles

  Names, Oil, Lamps

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• Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or a book by her silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs; if thou art not worth more than the world can make thee, thy Redeemer had a bad pennyworth, or thou an uncurious Redeemer.

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  Art, Book, Men

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.100

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• My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind.
  Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
  What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought?
  This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.

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  Fire, Wind, Soul

  Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.15

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• My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears.

  Francis Quarles

  Rocks, Sea, Soul

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.291

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• The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

  Francis Quarles

  Debt, Ease, Slender

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.260

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

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  World, Guests, Inns

  Francis Quarles, “On The World”

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• What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.

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  Night, Fire, Sea

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• Heav'n is not always got by running.

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  Running, Heaven

  Francis Quarles, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1778). “Emblems divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man”

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• Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

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  Hate, Anger, Night

  Francis Quarles (1822). “Uniform with the Enchiridion: Spare Minutes Or Resolved Meditations and Premeditated Resolutions”, p.117

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

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  Humility, Pride, Light

  Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.237

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• If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

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  Thinking, Talking, Brain

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

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• Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee; His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee; man's love to God is nothing but a faint reflection of God's love to man.

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  God, Acceptance, Reflection

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.77

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• In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actions labor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will move thee to love Him; the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and the knowledge of God is the perfection of love.

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  God, Moving, Thinking

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.100

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• O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it,
  That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?

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  Giving, World, Give And Take

  Francis Quarles, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1778). “Emblems divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man”

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• He that begins to live, begins to die.

  Francis Quarles

  Dies

  'Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man' (1638) no. 1, epigram 1

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• Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

  Francis Quarles

  Art, Fingers, Blur

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.58

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• The next way home's the farthest way about.

  Francis Quarles

  Home, Way, Next

  Francis Quarles (1736). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: Together with Hieroglyphicks of the Life of Man”, p.195

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

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  Reason

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• As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Justice, Honor

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