Best Quotes by Edmund Waller (Top 10)
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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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.
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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.
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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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More Edmund Waller Quotes
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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.
Edmund Waller