Francis Quarles
My mind's my kingdom.Collection: Inspirational
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.Collection: Work
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.Collection: Anger
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.Collection: God
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.Collection: Patience
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.Collection: Wisdom
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.Collection: Friendship
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.Collection: Wisdom
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Collection: Fear
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
Wickedness is its own punishment.
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
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.
It is the lot of man but once to die.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
No cross no crown.
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.Collection: Pride
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.Collection: Exercise
It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.Collection: Happiness
Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.Collection: Hatred
I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.Collection: Sweat
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, how to be free from it, that's the point. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.Collection: Fearless
Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so.Collection: Friends
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.Collection: God
Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.Collection: Riches
After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.Collection: Years
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.Collection: Revenge
Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.Collection: Vanity
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence.Collection: Fashion
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.Collection: Wise
Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Generosity
How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?Collection: Men
They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.Collection: Encouragement
If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Mother
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.Collection: Vices