The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. Francis Quarles More Quotes by Francis Quarles More Quotes From Francis Quarles 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 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 abuse light law The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. Francis Quarles mirth laughter cities Let grace conduct thee to the paths of peace. Francis Quarles thee grace path False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight. Francis Quarles delight gains world Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap. Francis Quarles deceitful lap world Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks. Francis Quarles aim mark Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne. Francis Quarles rising shining son A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear. Francis Quarles lambs lions fear What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay. Francis Quarles clay gold ears The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire. Francis Quarles graves desire men Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop. Francis Quarles spurs vices lust Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends. Francis Quarles glory men two 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 honor justice death No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none. Francis Quarles born men life 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 deliverance god forgotten Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth. Francis Quarles generosity giving hands Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor. Francis Quarles foundation honor fall Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. Francis Quarles wisdom Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods. Francis Quarles prejudice plato world
