Francis Quarles Quotes About Age

• As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Justice, Honor

• Some only break their Fast, and so away:
  Others stay to Dinner, and depart full fed:
  The deepest Age but Sups, and goes to Bed:
  He's most in debt that lingers out the Day:
  Who dies betime, has less, and less to pay.

  Francis Quarles

  Life, Age, Dinner

• ¿Y qué es la vida? - Un cansado peregrinaje, Cuya gloria en un día llena el escenario Con la infancia, la madurez y la edad decrépita.

  Francis Quarles

  Childhood, Age, One Day

  Francis Quarles (1807). “Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introd. by Reginalde Wolfe”, p.30

• Afflictions clarify the soul;
  And like hard masters, give more hard directions,
  Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.

  Francis Quarles

  Giving, Soul, Age

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