Edmund Waller Quotes
"Stronger by weakness, wiser men become."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Men, Weakness)
"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Fear, Hell, Interest)
"The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Lies)
"To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!"
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Love, Hope, Heaven, Taste)
"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
(Related: Rest, Sun)
"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Quiet)
"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Poets)
"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Poets, Praise)
"Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: English, May, Ocean, Road)
"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Poor, Rain)
"Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Old)
"Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse."
- Edmund Waller
"How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!"
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Time)
"His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Love, God, Thought, Man)
"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
(Related: Time, Now)
"Give us enough but with a sparing hand."
- Edmund Waller
"Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Love, Angels)
"Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round."
- Edmund Waller
"All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Value)
"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."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Soul, Guest, Sickness)
"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Writer)