Edmund Waller Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  Edmund Waller

  Giving, Sun, Compass

  Edmund Waller (1744). “Sammlung”, p.70

• Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

  Edmund Waller

  Hands, Giving, Enough

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.253

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

  Edmund Waller

  Passion, Wind, Sea

  Edmund Waller (1744). “Sammlung”, p.201

• 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

  Wise, Fall, Practice

  Edmund Waller (1730). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose”, p.184

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