John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
Franis Quarles 1592-1644 John Bartlett
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| Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks. 1 |
| Divine Poems (ed. 1669). |
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| Sweet Phosphor, bring the day Whose conquering ray May chase these fogs; Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Light will repay The wrongs of night; Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! |
| Emblems. Book i. Emblem 14. |
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| Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise. |
| Book ii. Emblem 2. |
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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. |
| Emblem 10, Ep. 10. |
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| The slender debt to Nature ’s quickly paid, 2 Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made. |
| Book ii. Emblem 13. |
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| The next way home ’s the farthest way about. 3 |
| Book iv. Emblem 2, Ep. 2. |
| 7 |
| It is the lot of man but once to die. |
| Book v. Emblem 7. |
| Note 1. Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.—Edward Young: Night Thoughts, night v. line 1011. [back] |
| Note 2. To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.—Euripides: Alcestis, line 418. [back] |
| Note 3. The longest way round is the shortest way home.—Bohn: Foreign Proverbs (Italian). [back] |