Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
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What money creates, money preserves if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drownFrancis Quarles
My soul, what's lighter than a feather Wind. Than wind The fire. And what than fire The Mind. What's lighter than the mind A thought. Than thought This bubble world. What than this bubble Naught.
Francis Quarles
The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely penned, And all the errata will appear at the end.
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He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
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I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
Francis Quarles
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
Francis Quarles
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