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Edmund Waller Quotes
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that s good, and all that s fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. - Edmund Waller Quotes
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. - Edmund Waller Quotes
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear. - Edmund Waller Quotes
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. - Edmund Waller Quotes
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. - Edmund Waller Quotes
Give us enough but with a sparing hand. - Edmund Waller Quotes
Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. - Edmund Waller Quotes
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He sufferd and as God He taught. - Edmund Waller Quotes
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair! - Edmund Waller Quotes
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. - Edmund Waller Quotes
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. - Edmund Waller Quotes
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. - Edmund Waller Quotes
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. - Edmund Waller Quotes
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. - Edmund Waller Quotes
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. - Edmund Waller Quotes
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. - Edmund Waller Quotes
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. - Edmund Waller Quotes
That eagles fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. - Edmund Waller Quotes
The chain thats fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends. - Edmund Waller Quotes
The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all. - Edmund Waller Quotes
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest. - Edmund Waller Quotes
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. - Edmund Waller Quotes
The seas are quiet when the winds give oer; So calm are we when passions are no more! - Edmund Waller Quotes
Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy. - Edmund Waller Quotes
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! - Edmund Waller Quotes
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. - Edmund Waller Quotes
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