Francis Quarles frasi celebri
Francis Quarles: Frasi in inglese
“Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.”
Book II, no. 2.
Emblems (1635)
“The road to resolution lies by doubt:
The next way home's the farthest way about.”
Book IV, no. 2, Epigram.
Emblems (1635)
“Death aims with fouler spite
At fairer marks.”
Divine Poems (ed. 1669). Compare: "Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v. line 1011.
“The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.”
Book II, no. 13. Compare: "To die is a debt we must all of us discharge", Euripides, Alcestis, line 418.
Emblems (1635)
“The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that has no cross deserves no crown.”
Esther (1621), Sec. 9, Meditation 9.
Enchiridion (1640)
“The next way home's the farthest way about.”
Book IV, no. 2, Epigram 2. Compare: "The longest way round is the shortest way home", Bohn, Foreign Proverbs (Italian).
Emblems (1635)
“It is the lot of man but once to die.”
Book V, no. 7.
Emblems (1635)
“No man is born unto himself alone;
Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.”
Esther (1621), Sec. 1, Meditation 1.
“Thou art my life, my way, my light”
Why dost thou Shade thy Lovely Face? (1635).
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 609.
