Quotes by Edmund Waller

• Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
• Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
• The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
• To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
• 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.
• The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
• Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
• Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
• Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
• His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
• 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.
• Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
• Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
• All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
• And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.
• So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.