Enchiridion Containing institutions, divine contemplative. Practicall. Moral ethicall. Oeconomicall. Politicall. Written by Fra: Quarles.

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Title: Enchiridion Containing institutions, divine contemplative. Practicall. Moral ethicall. Oeconomicall. Politicall. Written by Fra: Quarles.
Author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
Publication: London :: printed for R.F.,; 1644.
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Subject terms: Maxims -- Early works to 1800.; Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. LXXXIV.

SPend a hundred yeares in Earths best pleasures; and after that, a hundred more; to which being spent, adde a thousand; and to that, tenne thousand more; the last shall as sure∣ly end, as the first are ended, and all shall be swallowed with Eternity: He that is born to day, is not sure to live a day; He that hath lived the lon∣gest, is but as he that was born ye∣sterday: The Happinesse of the one is, That he hath liv'd; the Happinesse of the other is, That he may live; and the lot of both is, That they must dye: it is no happinesse to live long, nor unhappinesse to dye soon: Happy is hee that hath liv'd long enough, to dye well.