Francis Quarles Quotes
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Use law and physic only in cases of necessity; they that use them otherwise, abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses: they are good remedies, bad recreations, but ruinous habits.
[Law]
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What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.
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When one associates with vice, it is but one step from companionship to slavery.
[Associates]
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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.
[Temptation]
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Wickedness is its own punishment.
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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
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Wisdom without innocency is knavery; innocence without wisdom is foolery; be therefore as wise as serpents and innocent as doves. The subtilty of the serpent instructs the innocency of the dove; the innocency of the dove corrects the subtilty of the serpent. What God hath joined together let not man separate.
[Wisdom]
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Wouldest thou not be thought a fool in another's conceit, be not wise in thy own: he that trusts to his own wisdom, proclaims his own folly: he is truly wise, and shall appear so, that hath folly enough to be thought not worldly wise, or wisdom enough to see his own folly.
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Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? - diminish them wisely. - Or wouldst thou make thine estate entire? - divide it charitably. - Seeds that are scattered increase, but hoarded up they perish.
[Riches]
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Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain; the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
[Laughter]
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