Edmund Waller

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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

— Edmund Waller

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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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