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Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Francis Quarles
Wisdom, Cards, Literature

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.

Francis Quarles
Love, Heart, Literature
'Emblems' (1635) bk. 1, no. 12 'Hugo de Anima'

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Francis Quarles
Friendship, Genuine Friends, Literature

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Francis Quarles
Men, Literature, Dies
Francis Quarles, Christopher Harvey (1866). “Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man”, p.206

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Francis Quarles
Fear, Literature, Action
Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.18

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Francis Quarles
Heaven, Ears, Literature

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Francis Quarles
Fear, Heart, Literature

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.

Francis Quarles
Clothes, Literature, Care
"Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine; Contemplative; Practical; Moral; Ethical; Œconomical; Political".

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.

Francis Quarles
Worry, Literature, May
Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.87

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

Francis Quarles
Crowns, Literature, Crosses
"Hadassa". 1621.

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