Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
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“Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.”
“The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.”
“Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.”
Source: The school of the heart, or The heart of itself gone away from God brought back again to him and instructed by him, by Francis Quarles [really by C. Harvey. Adapted from B. van Haeften's Schola cordis]. To which is added, The learning of the heart by the same author [really by C. Harvey. Ed. by C.E. De Coetlogon. Issued as vol. 2 of Emblems divine and moral, by F. Quarles. Wanting the title-leaf and plates].
“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.”
Source: The school of the heart, or The heart of itself gone away from God brought back again to him and instructed by him, by Francis Quarles [really by C. Harvey. Adapted from B. van Haeften's Schola cordis]. To which is added, The learning of the heart by the same author [really by C. Harvey. Ed. by C.E. De Coetlogon. Issued as vol. 2 of Emblems divine and moral, by F. Quarles. Wanting the title-leaf and plates].
“Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.”
Source: Emblems: Divine and Moral
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
Source: Uniform with the Enchiridion: Spare Minutes Or Resolved Meditations and Premeditated Resolutions
“Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.”
Source: Argalus and Parthenia
“Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.”
Source: Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man
“Wickedness is its own punishment.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.”
Source: Enchiridion: Containing Institutions--divine: Contemplative, Practical; Moral: Ethical, Œconomical, Political
“No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.”
“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.”
“The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.”