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
humility virtue reason
Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.
dresses language injury
Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.
hatred scandal ruins
Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.
kings obedience highways
Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.
humility pride light
The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.
spurs anticipation danger
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it...
humility voice silence
The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
graves having-patience inferiors
If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.
mercy turns
Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.
thrones tubs found
Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.
rocks sea soul
My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears.
guests world inns
The world's an Inn; and I her guest.
possession goods loses
The goods we spend we keep; and what we save We lose; and only what we lose we have.
reason
Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.