Inspirational Quotes by Francis Quarles
“My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot has many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.”
“Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.”
“The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.”
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“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. ”
topics: Anger
“The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.”
topics: Character
“There is no such merchant as the charitable man; he gives trifles which he could not keep, to receive treasure which he cannot lose.”
topics: Charity
“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.”
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“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.”
“In giving of thine alms inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much on the merits of him that requires, as to the manner of him that relieves. If the man deserve not, thou hast given to humanity.”
topics: Charity
“Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God in anger proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity.”
“Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men beware of thee. Where drunkenness reigns, there reason is an exile, virtue a stranger, and God an enemy; blasphemy is wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are proclamations.”
topics: Drunkenness
“What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.”
topics: Finances
“Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.”
“And indeed what are the heavens, the earth, nay every creature, but Hieroglyphics and Emblems of [God’s] Glory?”
“Thy babbling tongue tells golden tales Of endless treasure; Thy bounty offers easy sales Of lasting pleasure; Thou ask'st the conscience what she ails, And swear'st to ease her: There's none can want where thou supply'st: There's none can give when thou deny'st. Alas! fond world, thou boast'st; false world thou ly'st.”
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Francis Quarles, an English poet, was born in Romford, Essex, and baptised there on 8 May 1592. Francis was entered at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1608, and subsequently at Lincoln's Inn. He was made cupbearer to the Princess Elizabeth, in 1613, remaining abroad for some years; and before 1629 he was appointed secretary to Ussher, the primate of Ireland.
Francis traced his ancestry to a family settled in England before the Norman Conquest with a long history in royal service.
The work by which Quarles is best known, the Emblems, was originally published in 1635, with grotesque illustrations engraved by William Marshall and others. The Emblems was immensely popular with the common people, but the critics of the 17th and 18th centuries had no mercy on Quarles. Sir John Suckling in his Sessions of the Poets disrespectfully alluded to him as he "that makes God speak so big in's poetry."