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"Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks."
Francis Quarles / Divine Poems (ed. 1669).
Divine Poems (ed. 1669).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Light will repay The wrongs of night; Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!"
Francis Quarles / Emblems. Book i. Emblem 14.
Emblems. Book i. Emblem 14.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise."
Francis Quarles / Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 2.
Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"This house is to be let for life or years; Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears. Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known, She must be dearly let, or let alone."
Francis Quarles / Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 10, Ep. 10.
Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 10, Ep. 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The slender debt to Nature 's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made."
Francis Quarles / Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 13.
Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 13.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The next way home 's the farthest way about."
Francis Quarles / Emblems. Book iv. Emblem 2, Ep. 2.
Emblems. Book iv. Emblem 2, Ep. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"It is the lot of man but once to die."
Francis Quarles / Emblems. Book v. Emblem 7.
Emblems. Book v. Emblem 7.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain