Patience, a praise; forbearance is a treasure;
Sufferance, an angel is; a monster, rage.
Edward Fairfax Quotes
1580–1635 England
Edward Fairfax (1580? – 27 January 1635) was an English translator.
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35 quotes
Remembrance is the life of grief; his grave,
Forgetfulness.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Nature gives beauty, fortune wealth, in vain.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Base affections fall, when virtue riseth.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
The fear of ill exceeds the evil we fear.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Nor love consents that beauty's field lie waste.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Better sit still, men say, than rise to fall.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Vile man, begot of clay, and born of dust.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Power constrained is but a glorious slave.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Oh vanity of man's unstable mind,
Puffed up with every blast of friendly wind!
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Sorrow, misfortune's son, despair's foul sire.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Sorrow, misfortune's son, despair's foul fire.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
The rose within herself her sweetness closed.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Greatest praise, in greatest peril, wons.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
The golden sun rose from the silver wave,
And with his beams enamelled every green.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Coward dread lacks order, fear wants art,
Deaf to attend, commanded or desired.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Wayward beauty doth not fancy move,
A frown forbids, a smile engendereth love.
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Fairfax (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.