5 sayings with source references.
Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.
Use law and physic only for necessity. They that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses. They are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.Francis Quarles · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 167
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The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be a monarch of a little world, command thyself.Francis Quarles · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 299
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Hath any wronged thee, be bravely revenged. Slight it, and the work's begun; forgive it, and 'tis finished. He is below himself that is not above an injury.Francis Quarles · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 329
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Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.Francis Quarles · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 393
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If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.Francis Quarles · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 573
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