Quote#Nature
A narrow room our glory vain upties
Quote byEdward Fairfax · 1580–1635
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Quoted in England's Parnassus (1600), Book XIV, stanza 10.
English (original)
A narrow room our glory vain upties, A little circle doth our pride contain, Earth like an isle amid the water lies, Which sea sometime is called, sometime the main, Yet naught therein responds a name so great, It's but a lake, a pond, a marish strait.
— Edward Fairfax
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Better sit still, men say, than rise to fall.
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Aurora bright her crystal gates unbarred, And bridegroom-like forth stept the glorious sun.
The rose within herself her sweetness closed.
The golden sun rose from the silver wave, And with his beams enamelled every green.
Patience, a praise; forbearance is a treasure; Sufferance, an angel is; a monster, rage.