Edmund Waller Quotes
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But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
— Edmund Waller
Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.
— Edmund Waller
Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
— Edmund Waller
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
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
— Edmund Waller
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
— Edmund Waller
Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
— Edmund Waller
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
Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.
— Edmund Waller
And keeps the palace of the soul.
— Edmund Waller
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
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
— Edmund Waller
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
— Edmund Waller
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
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
— Edmund Waller
The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace;And makes all ills that vex us here to cease. — Edmund Waller
If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.
— Edmund Waller
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
— Edmund Waller
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
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
— Edmund Waller
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
— Edmund Waller
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
— Edmund Waller
Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
— Edmund Waller
Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
— Edmund Waller
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. — Edmund Waller
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
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
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
— Edmund Waller
