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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Edmund Waller
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Edmund Waller
Age: 81 †
Born: 1606
Born: March 3
Died: 1687
Died: October 21
Poet
Politician
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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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Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
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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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But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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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.
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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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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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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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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
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Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.
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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.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.
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Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
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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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Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
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That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
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