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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
Edmund Waller
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Edmund Waller
Age: 81 †
Born: 1606
Born: March 3
Died: 1687
Died: October 21
Poet
Politician
Writer
Coleshill
Buckinghamshire
Gentleman that loves the peace
True son of the Church of England and a lover of his countries liberty
Edmund Waller
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Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
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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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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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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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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
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Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.
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Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.
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Others may use the ocean as their road Only the English make it their abode.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
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But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
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To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.
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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.
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The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.
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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.
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Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.
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