Edmund Waller Quotes

Best Quotes by Edmund Waller (Top 10)

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Edmund Waller
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
Edmund Waller
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Edmund Waller
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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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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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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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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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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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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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.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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