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What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.

Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.62
What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.