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Francis Quarles

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The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.


— Francis Quarles


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The road to perseverance lies by doubt.


— Francis Quarles


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The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.


— Francis Quarles


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Wickedness is its own punishment.


— Francis Quarles


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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.


— Francis Quarles


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His mother Joan Dalton was the daughter and heiress of Eldred Dalton of Mores Place Hadham. (1645) which contains a memoir by his widow
The Shepheards' Oracles (1646)
a second part of Boanerges and Barnabas (1646)
a broadside entitled A Direfull Anathema against Peace-haters (1647)
an interlude The Virgin Widow (1649).

Francis Quarles (8 May 1592 – 8 September 1644) was an English poet most famous for his Emblem book aptly entitled Emblems.

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