Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles
Francis Quarleswas an English poet most famous for his Emblem book aptly entitled Emblems...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 May 1592
mother daughter son
If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.
punishment wickedness
Wickedness is its own punishment.
mother believe humble
Thy ignorance in unrevealed mysteries is the mother of a saving faith, and thy understanding in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred knowledge; understand not therefore that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand; understanding is the wages of a lively faith and faith is the reward of an humble ignorance.
sweet sleep bed-of-roses
Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
men self sea
Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man.
hate grief men
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?
fear bears lambs
A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear.
government nero kingdoms
Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper it. Had Nero tuned his kingdom as he did his harp, his harmony had been more honorable, and his reign more prosperous.
dresses language injury
Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.
love charity faith-in-god
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
meditation soul honor
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.
reading writing wish
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
sweet lying book
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
cross crown
He that has no cross will have no crown