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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
Virtue
Brass
Guard
Stronger

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The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.
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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
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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 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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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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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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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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Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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And keeps the palace of the soul.
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With wisdom fraught not such as books, but such as practice taught.
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Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.
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Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
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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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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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Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
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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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While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.
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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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Others may use the ocean as their road Only the English make it their abode.
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