Top 22 Quotes by Edmund Waller

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.