Quote#Truth
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down
Quote byFrancis Quarles · 1592–1644
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Esther (1621), Sec. 9, Meditation 9..
English (original)
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that has no cross deserves no crown.
— Francis Quarles
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Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
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