Edward Dyer Quotes & Sayings

Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake' d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind. — Edward Dyer

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I! — Edward Dyer

The little smiling cottage! where at eve
He meets his rosy children at the door,
Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife,
With good brown cake and bacon slice, intent
To cheer his hunger after labor hard. — Edward Dyer

My Mind To Me a Kingdom Is. — Edward Dyer

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss. — Edward Dyer

If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them. — Edward Dyer

And love is love, in beggars and in kings. — Edward Dyer

My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health. — Edward Dyer

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou. — Edward Dyer

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store. — Edward Dyer

True hearts have ears and eyes, no tongues to speak;
They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break. — Edward Dyer