The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. Francis Quarles More Quotes by Francis Quarles More Quotes From Francis Quarles The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were. Francis Quarles reputation ears average Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors. Francis Quarles sweat revenge blood Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. Francis Quarles anger power long The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. Francis Quarles literature heart love My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play Francis Quarles soul judging play The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God. Francis Quarles know-thyself height philosophy If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue. Francis Quarles silence wise desire 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 success happiness science If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. Francis Quarles god heart love Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin. Francis Quarles scandal division hatred God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening epilogue and thy morning prologue; practice to make him thy last thought at night when thou sleepest, and thy first thought in the morning when thou awakest; so shall thy fancy be sanctified in the night, and thy understanding rectified in the day; so shall thy rest be peaceful, thy labors prosperous, thy life pious, and thy death glorious. Francis Quarles god morning night The road to perseverance lies by doubt. Francis Quarles perseverance doubt lying I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. Francis Quarles reading wish writing 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 quality giving Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. Francis Quarles charity faith-in-god love If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both. Francis Quarles fasting soul exercise That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. Francis Quarles genuine-friends literature friendship The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere. Francis Quarles charity Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware. Francis Quarles wise heart death Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. Francis Quarles virtue humility reason
