Francis Quarles

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
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And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
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