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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth

A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.

Edmund Spenser
Heart, Men, Air

But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

Edmund Spenser
Fashion, Heart, Angel
Edmund Spenser (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.218

Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

Edmund Spenser
Heart, Joy, May
Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, Norris Deck (1866). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.280

Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.

Edmund Spenser
Jealousy, Heart, Monsters
Edmund Spenser, John Aikin (1810). “Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems”, p.14

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

Edmund Spenser
Revenge, Hate, Heart

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

Edmund Spenser
Heart, Iron, Mind

Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

Edmund Spenser
Jealousy, Heart, Hateful

But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.

Edmund Spenser
Smart, Heart, Thrones
1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 2, stanza 23. buxom = 'yielding'.

Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win.

Edmund Spenser
Heart, Winning, Fool
Edmund Spenser, Theodore Bathurst (1715). “The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser: In Six Volumes : with a Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words”, p.1500

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