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And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage
Quote byFrancis Quarles · 1592–1644
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: What Is Life..
English (original)
And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.
— Francis Quarles
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Reason can discover Things only near; sees nothing that's above her.
Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that has no cross deserves no crown.
No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
He that loves thee, He that keeps And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.