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"Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends."

Francis Quarles
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Francis Quarles was an English poet most notable for his emblem book entitled Emblems.
"Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends."
"Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept."
"He that loves thee, He that keeps And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps."
"Thou art my life, my way, my light"
"We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil; We tire the night in thought, the day in toil."
"The road to resolution lies by doubt: The next way homes the farthest way about."
"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."
"It is the lot of man but once to die."
"Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true. Where lies are easily admitted the father of lies will not easily be excluded."
"The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that has no cross deserves no crown."
"Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne."
"Reason can discover Things only near; sees nothing thats above her."