Quotes by Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that ‘s good, and all that ‘s fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

Compass

Giving

Sun

And keeps the palace of the soul.

Palaces

Soul

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

Circles

Rounds

Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; Well-chosen love is never taught to die, But with our nobler part invades the sky.

Dark

Heart

Life

Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; ’tis but what we in our autumn do.

Autumn

Fades

Flower

For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.

Blessed

Love

Voice

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

Enough

Giving

Hands

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.

Rose

Sweet

Time

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’d;He that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.

Fall

Practice

Wise

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

Love

Sweet

Time

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Autumn

Believe

Blessed

Circles

Clouds

Compass

Conqueror

Dark

Distance

Doe

Enough

Envy

Eye

Fabric

Fades

Fall

Flower

Giving

Half

Hands

Heart

Home

Humble

Improvement

Larks

Life

Light

Long

Love

Love Is

Lying

May

Men

Mould

Muse

Our World

Palaces

Passion

Pay

Practice

Promise

Rapture

Rose

Rounds

Satire

Sea

Should

Should Have

Soul

Stars

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Quotes by Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that ‘s good, and all that ‘s fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

And keeps the palace of the soul.

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; ’tis but what we in our autumn do.

For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

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.

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

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