Edmund Waller quotes - page 2

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. (Edmund Waller)
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. View quote
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. View quote
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There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies blow; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow: There cherries grow which none may buy Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry. View quote
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That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. View quote
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Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own. View quote
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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. Then grieve no more that one so heavenly shaped The crooked hand of trembling age escaped; Rather, since we beheld her not decay, But that she vanish'd so entire away, Her wondrous beauty, and her goodness, merit We should suppose that some propitious spirit In that celestial form frequented here, And is not dead, but ceases to appear. View quote
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Love only enters as a native there, For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here. View quote
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And keeps the palace of the soul. View quote
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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. View quote
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He that alone would wise and mighty be,Commands that others love as well as he.Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?-He can add wings when he commands to fly.Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;He that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His practice, as a pattern, may prevail. (Edmund Waller)
In other things the knowing artist may, Judge better than the people but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use), If you approve it not, has no excuse. View quote
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Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find, No entrance there, hut virtues stay behind: Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner train, Of mortal virtues, at the door remain. Love only enters as a native there, For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here. View quote
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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. View quote
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The King governs by Law. Let us look back to the evils we had, in order to prevent more. View quote
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He that alone would wise and mighty be, Commands that others love as well as he. View quote
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We give public money, and must see that it goes to public use. Tell your money, fix it to public ends, and take order against occasions of this nature for the future. View quote
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Let us look to our Government, Fleet, and Trade. View quote
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest. View quote
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. View quote
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