We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil

Quote byFrancis Quarles · 1592–1644

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Emblems (1635), Book II, no. 2..

English (original)

We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil; We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

— Francis Quarles

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.

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.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that has no cross deserves no crown.

He that loves thee, He that keeps And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.