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Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.
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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Virtue
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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.
Edmund Waller
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
Edmund Waller
Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so 'tis but what we in our autumn 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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And keeps the palace of the soul.
Edmund Waller
Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
Edmund Waller
Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
Edmund Waller
While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.
Edmund Waller
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
Edmund Waller
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.
Edmund Waller
With wisdom fraught not such as books, but such as practice taught.
Edmund Waller
What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
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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.
Edmund Waller
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Edmund Waller
Others may use the ocean as their road Only the English make it their abode.
Edmund Waller
Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.
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Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
Edmund Waller
To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.
Edmund Waller
Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
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