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

  Francis Quarles

  Hands, Gold, Care

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.214

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• For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!

  Francis Quarles

  Real, Grief, Men

  Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.11

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• In giving of thy alms, inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much upon the merits of him that requires, as into the manner of him that relieves; if the man deserve not, thou hast given it to humanity.

  Francis Quarles

  Men, Giving, Humanity

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• If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor thy love to God is nourished.

  Francis Quarles

  Charity, Neighbor, Vain

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p.47), 1895.

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• Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and think not thou halt charity for thy neighbor, if thou wantest faith to God; where they are not both together, they are both wanting; they are both dead, if once divided.

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  Thinking, Together, Charity

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• If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

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  Beauty, Heart, Soul

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

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• Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.

  Francis Quarles

  Journey, Expectations, Fruition

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.70

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• In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.

  Francis Quarles

  Art, Men, Evil

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

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• If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Gambling, Evil

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.149

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• The goods we spend we keep; and what we save
  We lose; and only what we lose we have.

  Francis Quarles

  Possession, Goods, Loses

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• No man's condition is so base as his;
  None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems
  Him hateful, 'cause he seems not what he is;
  God hates him, 'cause he is not what he seems;
  What grief is absent, or what mischief can
  Be added to the hate of God and man?

  Francis Quarles

  Hate, Grief, Men

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• Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.

  Francis Quarles

  Atheist, Philosophy, Journey

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.89

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• Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

  Francis Quarles

  Lust, Vices, Spurs

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.213

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• No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

  Francis Quarles

  Long, Levels, Glory

  Francis Quarles, Charles Edward De Coetlogon, Christopher Harvey (1778). “Emblems Divine and Moral: Together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.88

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• Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first, nor last; it is less shame for a virgin to be lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence.

  Francis Quarles

  Silence, Purpose, Lasts

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.80

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• Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

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  Wise, Adversity, Brave

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• If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Enemy, Overcoming

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.87

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

  Francis Quarles

  Fear, Lambs, Lions

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

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• The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

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  Laughter, Cities, Mirth

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.56

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• Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

  Francis Quarles

  Light, Law, Abuse

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.60

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• God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. If thou read with understanding, it will make thee a great master of philosophy, and a true servant of the divine Author: if thou but barely read, it will make thee thine own wise man and the Author's fool.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Philosophy, Book

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.75

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• As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself.

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  Art, Pride, Loss

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.42

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• Toyish airs please trivial ears.

  Francis Quarles

  Music, Air, Ears

  Francis Quarles, Christopher Harvey (1866). “Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man”, p.3

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

  Francis Quarles

  Prayer, Pleasure, Ends

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.140

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• Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and pleasing to the sight, But sour in taste, false as the putrid core: Thy flaring glass is gems at her half light; She makes thee seeming rich, but truly poor: She boasts a kernel, and bestows a shell; Performs an inch of her fair-promis'd ell: Her words protest a heav'n; her works produce a hell.

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  Glasses, Light, Sight

  Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.23

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