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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.
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agr... (more Edmund Waller quotes)
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