Quote#Nature
A narrow compass! and yet there
Quote byEdmund Waller · 1606–1687
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: On a Girdle; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
— Edmund Waller
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