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The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's (bird of the hawk kind) dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's (bird of the hawk kind) dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
Approximate author period: c. 1618 AD · renaissance
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- Author or tradition
- Francis Quarles
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- Approximate author period: c. 1618 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1592–1644)
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 862 · printed citation: Quarles
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