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8 Quotes for 'Edmund Waller' in the Database.
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Edmund Waller Quotes
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought;
As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Topic: Christ
Source: Of Divine Love (canto III, l. 41)
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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.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Eagles
Source: To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing (ep. XIV)
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build
Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Topic: Larks
Source: Of the Queen
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;
So calm are we when passions are no more!
Topic: Passion
Source: On Divine Poems (l. 7)
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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.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing (ep. XIV)
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Tea does our fancy aid,
Repress those vapours which the head invade
And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Topic: Tea
Source: Of Tea
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All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Topic: Worth
Source: Miscellanies (I, l. 163)
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