Edmund Waller Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.”
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller: Collated with the Best Editions”
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“Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.”
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.211
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“Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.”
-- Edmund WallerSource : 'Panegyric to My Lord Protector' 46
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“Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.”
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.68
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“Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.”
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“And keeps the palace of the soul.”
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller, “On Tea”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!”
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“Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.”
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“Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.”
-- Edmund WallerSource : 'On the Foregoing Divine Poems' l. 18
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“Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.”
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.150
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“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.”
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“Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.”
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“If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.”
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“The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.”
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“Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.”
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.228
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“Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.”
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller (1744). “Sammlung”, p.219
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“What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; Well-chosen love is never taught to die, But with our nobler part invades the sky.”
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.115
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“To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!”
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184
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“The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.”
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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.”
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“Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.”
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184
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“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.”
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“How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!”
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“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 WallerSource : Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose”, p.61
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“Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.”
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1796). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. From Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait.]”, p.39
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