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It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

Francis Quarles
Happiness, Long, Enough
Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.49

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

Francis Quarles
Happiness, Success, Science
'Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man' (1638) no. 4

In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.

Francis Quarles
Happiness, Art, Adversity
Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.37

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