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But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

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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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Vices
Flesh
Blood
Virtue
Wells
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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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Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
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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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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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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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Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
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