Quote#Nature
The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid
Quote byFrancis Quarles · 1592–1644
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Emblems (1635), Book II, no. 13. Compare: "To die is a debt we must all of us discharge", Euripides, Alcestis, line 418..
English (original)
The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.
— Francis Quarles
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