"How small a part of time they share,……" — Edmund Waller
"How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!"
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32 Quotes by Edmund Waller
Edmund Waller has 32 quotes on this site.
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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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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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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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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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More Fair Quotes
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The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
— Chinua Achebe
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I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
— Lauren Bacall
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Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other,…
— Javier Bardem
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
— Mortimer Adler
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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to…
— Mortimer Adler
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When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a…
— Lewis Black
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge…
— Aeschylus
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We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
— Aeschylus
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man…
— Aeschylus
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