"All human things Of dearest value hang on…" — Edmund Waller
"All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings."
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Edmund Waller
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32 Quotes by Edmund Waller
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness,…
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I…
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved,…
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The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor…
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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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