Edmund Waller Quotes

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

  Edmund Waller

  Lying, Humble, Larks

  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 Waller

  Soul, Tea, Doe

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.211

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

  Edmund Waller

  Rain, Shepherds, Sailor

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.68

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

  Edmund Waller

  Muse, Rapture, Conqueror

  'Panegyric to My Lord Protector' 46

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• Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

  Edmund Waller

  Men, Stronger, Weakness

  'On the Foregoing Divine Poems' l. 18

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

  Edmund Waller

  Life, Believe, Love Is

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184

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

  Edmund Waller

  Art, War, Age

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.190

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

  Edmund Waller

  Heart, Return, All Things

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.247

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

  Edmund Waller

  Love, Life, Angel

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184

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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 Waller

  Love, Blessed, Voice

  Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose”, p.61

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

  Edmund Waller

  Flower, Autumn, Fades

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.228

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

  Edmund Waller

  Should Have, Half, Improvement

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.150

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

  Edmund Waller

  Blood, Vices, Flesh

  Edmund Waller, John Denham (sir.) (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and sir John Denham, with mem. and critical dissertation by G. Gilfillan”, p.98

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

  Edmund Waller

  Hero, Angel, Shining

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• Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

  Edmund Waller

  Stronger, Virtue, Brass

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.226

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

  Edmund Waller

  Slender, Strings, Humans

  Edmund Waller (1729). “The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose”, p.9

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• Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.

  Edmund Waller

  Good Night, Lying, Light

  1645 'To One Married to an Old Man'.

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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.

  Edmund Waller

  Our World, Thrones, Fabric

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.54

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

  Edmund Waller

  Latin, Greek, Poet

  "Of English Verse". Poem by Edmund Waller (1668); later published in George Gilfillan "Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham", 1857.

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

  Edmund Waller

  Arrows, Mind, Doe

  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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• 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 Waller

  Life, Heart, Dark

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.115

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• And keeps the palace of the soul.

  Edmund Waller

  Soul, Palaces

  Edmund Waller, “On Tea”

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

  Edmund Waller

  Fear, Men, Suffering

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184

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

  Edmund Waller

  Fear, Joy, Vex

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.244

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

  Edmund Waller

  Art, Entertainment, Merit

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