Frases de Francis Quarles

Francis Quarles foi um poeta inglês, mais conhecido por seu livro intitulado Emblems.

✵ 8. Maio 1592 – 8. Setembro 1644
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Francis Quarles: Frases em inglês

“Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.”

Book II, no. 2.
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 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)

“Thou art my life, my way, my light”

Why dost thou Shade thy Lovely Face? (1635).