Quote#Death
Death aims with fouler spite
Quote byFrancis Quarles · 1592–1644
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Divine Poems (ed. 1669). Compare: "Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v. line 1011..
English (original)
Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks.
— Francis Quarles
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Reason can discover Things only near; sees nothing that's above her.
Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that has no cross deserves no crown.
Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends.
No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
He that loves thee, He that keeps And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.