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Edmund Waller Quotes

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings Picture Quote #1

My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move Picture Quote #1

My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! Picture Quote #1

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek Picture Quote #1

Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find Picture Quote #1

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer’d and as God He taught Picture Quote #1

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair Picture Quote #1

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse Picture Quote #1

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode Picture Quote #1

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot Picture Quote #1

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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould Picture Quote #1

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene Picture Quote #1

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field Picture Quote #1

The chain that’s fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends Picture Quote #1

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest Picture Quote #1

That eagle’s fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he won’t to soar so high Picture Quote #1

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Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy Picture Quote #1

The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d,Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made Picture Quote #1

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love,We should agree as angels do above Picture Quote #1

To love is to believe, to hope, to know;’Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below Picture Quote #1

For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain, unless He does in our affections reign. How fond it were to wish for such a King, and no obedience to his sceptre bring, whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light; his service freedom, and His judgments right Picture Quote #1

Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; ‘tis but what we in our autumn do Picture Quote #1

The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new Picture Quote #1

The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings (Edmund Waller Quotes) My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move (Edmund Waller Quotes) My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! (Edmund Waller Quotes) Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek (Edmund Waller Quotes) Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find (Edmund Waller Quotes) Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round (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 suffer’d 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) 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) So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould (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) The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field (Edmund Waller Quotes) The chain that’s fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends (Edmund Waller Quotes) What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest (Edmund Waller Quotes) That eagle’s fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he won’t to soar so high. (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) The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d,Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made (Edmund Waller Quotes) Could we forbear dispute, and practise love,We should agree as angels do above (Edmund Waller Quotes) To love is to believe, to hope, to know;’Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below (Edmund Waller Quotes) For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice (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) His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain, unless He does in our affections reign. How fond it were to wish for such a King, and no obedience to his sceptre bring, whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light; his service freedom, and His judgments right (Edmund Waller Quotes) Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; ‘tis but what we in our autumn do (Edmund Waller Quotes) The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new (Edmund Waller Quotes) The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. (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) 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)

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