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Edmund Waller quotes: But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

Edmund Waller quotes: Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

Edmund Waller quotes: Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

Edmund Waller quotes: Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

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.

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: All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Edmund Waller quotes: Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Edmund Waller quotes: Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

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.

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: The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

Edmund Waller quotes: Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

Edmund Waller quotes: And keeps the palace of the soul.

And keeps the palace of the soul.

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.

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: While we converse with her, we markNo want of day, nor think it dark.

While we converse with her, we mark
No want of day, nor think it dark.

Edmund Waller quotes: The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

Edmund Waller quotes: All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.

All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.

Edmund Waller quotes: His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

Edmund Waller quotes: What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

Edmund Waller quotes: To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.

To man, that was in th' evening made,
Stars gave the first delight;
Admiring, in the gloomy shade,
Those little drops of light.

Edmund Waller quotes: Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Edmund Waller quotes: The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace;And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.

The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace;
And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.

Edmund Waller quotes: Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Edmund Waller quotes: Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

Edmund Waller quotes: With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

Edmund Waller quotes: When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

Edmund Waller quotes: Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Edmund Waller quotes: If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.

If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.

Edmund Waller quotes: So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Edmund Waller quotes: Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.

Edmund Waller quotes: Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

Edmund Waller quotes: Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

Edmund Waller quotes: Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

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

Edmund Waller quotes: Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

Edmund Waller quotes: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Edmund Waller quotes: Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

Edmund Waller quotes: Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

Edmund Waller quotes: Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.

Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.

Edmund Waller quotes: My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move!

My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!

Edmund Waller quotes: To love is to believe, to hope, to know;'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

Edmund Waller quotes: The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.

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.

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: That eagle's 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.

That eagle's 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 seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

Edmund Waller quotes: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Edmund Waller quotes: Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.

Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.

Edmund Waller quotes: How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

Edmund Waller quotes: Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.

Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.