Edmund Waller Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.]”

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• Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

  Edmund Waller

  World, Admire, Retiring

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.187

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• Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.

  Edmund Waller

  Hate, Never Change, States

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.111

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• His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain,
  Unless He does in our affections reign.
  How fond it were to wish for such a King,
  And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
  Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
  His service freedom, and His judgments right.

  Edmund Waller

  Kings, Light, Wish

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.252

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• Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

  Edmund Waller

  Faults, Innocence, Innocent

  Edmund Waller (1744). “Sammlung”, p.219

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• The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.

  Edmund Waller

  Soul, Zealous, Too Much

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• Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.

  Edmund Waller

  Song

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.158

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• 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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• The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.

  Edmund Waller

  Distance, Eye, Clouds

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.146

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• 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

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• Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

  Edmund Waller

  Ocean, Use, May

  'Of a War with Spain' l. 25

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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.

  Edmund Waller

  Artist, Play, Knowing

  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.]”

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• Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.

  Edmund Waller

  Light, Suffering, Retired

  'Go Lovely Rose!'

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• The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.

  Edmund Waller

  Time, Home, Dark

  'On the Foregoing Divine Poems' l. 18

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• Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.

  Edmund Waller

  Envy, Long, Together

  1645 'Of English Verse'.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

  Edmund Waller

  Wisdom, Book, Practice

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.168

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• The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
  Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.

  Edmund Waller

  Time, Dark, Light

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.200

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• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

  Edmund Waller

  Love, Sweet, Time

  Edmund Waller, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller: Collated with the Best Editions”

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• My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
  Did all within this circle move!

  Edmund Waller

  Grief, Moving, Circles

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.54

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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.

  Edmund Waller

  Sweet, Time, Rose

  "Go, Lovely Rose!" l. 1 (1645)

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• Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.

  Edmund Waller

  Humble, Arrows, Levels

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.53

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• What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

  Edmund Waller

  Men, Promise, Tests

  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.181

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• Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

  Edmund Waller

  May, Pay, Satire

  Edmund Waller (1806). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller ...”, p.105

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