Francis Quarles

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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Francis Quarles?

  • → Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
  • → I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
  • → Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
  • → The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Francis Quarles.

  • → I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
  • → The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
  • → Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
  • → Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Francis Quarles.

  • → The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
  • → Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
  • → Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
  • → Wickedness is its own punishment.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Francis Quarles. Which one?

  • → Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
  • → Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
  • → Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
  • → Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Francis Quarles?

  • → Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
  • → Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
  • → Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
  • → Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Francis Quarles?

  • → Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
  • → Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
  • → Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
  • → Wickedness is its own punishment.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Francis Quarles.

  • → If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
  • → Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
  • → Wickedness is its own punishment.
  • → Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
  
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