Edmund Waller Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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

• 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.

  Edmund Waller

  Angel, Doors, Practice

  "Of Divine Love". Poem in six cantos by Edmund Waller (circa 1686); later published in "A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain", Volume IV, 1792.

• Seeming devotion does but gild a knave,
  That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave;
  But where religion does with virtue join,
  It makes a hero like an angel shine.

  Edmund Waller

  Hero, Angel, Shining

  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.]”

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

  Edmund Waller

  Hero, Angel, Shining

• 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

• 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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