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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Francis Quarles. (1592–1644) (continued)

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This house is to be let for life or years;
Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears.
Cupid, ’t has long stood void; her bills make known,
She must be dearly let, or let alone.

Emblem 10, Ep. 10.

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The slender debt to Nature ’s quickly paid, 1
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

Book ii. Emblem 13.

2286

The next way home ’s the farthest way about. 2

Book iv. Emblem 2, Ep. 2.

2287

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Book v. Emblem 7.

George Herbert. (1593–1633)

2288

To write a verse or two is all the praise
That I can raise.

Praise.

2289

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky.

Virtue.

2290

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.

Virtue.

2291

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives.

Virtue.

2292

Like summer friends,
Flies of estate and sunneshine.

The Answer.

2293

    A servant with this clause
  Makes drudgery divine;
Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws
  Makes that and th’ action fine.

The Elixir.

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A verse may find him who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.

The Church Porch.

Note 1.
To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.—Euripides: Alcestis, line 418. [back]

Note 2.
The longest way round is the shortest way home.—Bohn: Foreign Proverbs (Italian). [back]

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