Beauty Quote by 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.” quote by Edmund Waller — Download Open image

“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.”

Edmund Waller

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

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Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find, No entrance…

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Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.

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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

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Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

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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…

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All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.

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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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What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

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

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

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

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Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it.

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