Thee Quotes - Page 18

• The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Men, Air

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.53

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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.

  Francis Quarles

  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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• 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.

  Francis Quarles

  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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• Even as the needle that directs the hour,
  (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power
  Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole;
  Even so the wavering powers of my soul,
  Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee
  From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Soul, Secret, Wavering

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• If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.

  Francis Quarles

  Light, Use, Crowns

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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.

  Francis Quarles

  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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• 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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• Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.

  Francis Quarles

  Eye, Soul, Firsts

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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 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.

  Francis Quarles

  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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• When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess thyself with true fear; when the devil brings thee oil, bring thou vinegar. The way to be safe is never to be secure.

  Francis Quarles

  Oil, Temptation, Devil

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.94

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• Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Giving, Poverty, May

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

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• Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

  Edmund Burke

  Sky, Soul, Larks

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.3

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• Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.

  Socrates

  Secret, Tales, Slander

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• Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

  Aeschylus

  Success, Men, Knees

  Aeschylus (1860). “Aeschylus”, p.241

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• When I forget that the stars shine in air--
  When I forget that beauty is in stars--
  When I forget that love with beauty is--
  Will I forget thee: till then all things else.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Air, Shining

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.236

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• The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds
  Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart
  Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be.
  Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them,
  Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven.
  All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.

  Philip James Bailey

  Peace, Pain, Kindness

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• Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which
  Men are and ought to be accountable,--
  If not to Thee, to those they influence.

  Philip James Bailey

  Men, Use, Influence

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.104

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• Thou art a woman,
  And that is saying the best and worst of thee.

  Philip James Bailey

  Art, Women, Worst

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.354

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• Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.

  John Lyly

  Art, Lying, Learning

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• Cupid and my Campaspe play'd
  At cards for kisses - Cupid paid:
  He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows,
  His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;
  Loses them too; then down he throws
  The coral of his lips, the rose
  Growing one's cheek (but none knows how);
  With these, the crystal of his brow,
  And then the dimple of his chin:
  All these did my Campaspe win.
  At last he set her both his eyes -
  She won, and Cupid blind did rise.
  O Love! has she done this for thee?
  What shall, alas! become of me?

  John Lyly

  Love, Mother, Team

  John Lyly, “Cards And Kisses”

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• O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee.

  Laurence Sterne

  Art, Blessed, Health

  Laurence Sterne (1840). “The Works ...: With a Life of the Author”, p.166

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• Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
  Or what is worse, be left by it?
  Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly,
  Oh, man! ordain'd to die?
  Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
  Thou who art under ground to lie?
  Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see,
  For death, alas! is reaping thee.

  Abraham Cowley

  Art, Lying, Men

  Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1826). “Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse”, p.217

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• Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

  James Hervey

  Wise, Wisdom, Doe

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.117

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• How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Coward, Lord

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book called Way of perfection. Interior castle. Conceptions of the love of God. Exclamations of the soul to God”

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