Francis Quarles Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: May 8, 1592 - September 8, 1644
Birthday: May 8
Death: September 8
Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.
source: Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.213
topic: Sweet, Men, Lust, Sweet Poison, Pernicious
