Top 15 Edward Fairfax Quotes

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.

Sorrow, misfortune's son, despair's foul fire.

Oh vanity of man's unstable mind,
Puffed up with every blast of friendly wind!

They make their fortune who are stout and wise,
Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.

Two inward vultures, Sorrow and Disdain.

Greatest praise, in greatest peril, wons.

From whence with grace and goodness compassed round,
He ruleth, blesseth, keepeth all he wrought,
Above the air, the fire, the sea and ground,
Our sense, our wit, our reason and our thought,
Where persons three, with power and glory crowned,
Are all one God, who made all things of naught,
Under whose feet, subjected to his grace,
Sit nature, fortune, motion, time and place. This is the place, from whence like smoke and dust
Of this frail world the wealth, the pomp and power,
He tosseth, tumbleth, turneth as he lust,
And guides our life, our death, our end and hour:
No eye, however virtuous, pure and just,
Can view the brightness of that glorious bower,
On every side the blessed spirits be,
Equal in joys, though differing in degree.

Coward dread lacks order, fear wants art,
Deaf to attend, commanded or desired.

O poverty, chief of the heavenly brood.

Cupid's deep rivers have their shallow fords,
His griefs, bring joys; his losses, recompenses;
He breeds the sore, and cures us of the pain:
Achilles' lance that wounds and heals again.

Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft.

Jealousy is Cupid's food;
For the swift steed runs not so fast alone,
As when some strain, some strive him to outgone.

Power constrained is but a glorious slave.

Vile man, begot of clay, and born of dust.

High state, the bed is where misfortune lies,
Mars most unfriendly, when most kind he seems,
Who climbeth high, on earth he hardest lights,
And lowest falls attend the highest flights.