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Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
Edmund Waller
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Edmund Waller
Age: 81 †
Born: 1606
Born: March 3
Died: 1687
Died: October 21
Poet
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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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Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.
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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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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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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
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Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.
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He that alone would wise and mighty be,Commands that others love as well as he.Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?-He can add wings when he commands to fly.Nor should we be with this command dismay'dHe that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.
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And keeps the palace of the soul.
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Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
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Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
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Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
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Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
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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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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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The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.
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Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
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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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