"Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze;……" — Edmund Waller
"Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays."
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Edmund Waller
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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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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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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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More Bays Quotes
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one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
— Karl Kraus
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How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see…
— Andrew Marvell
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Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.
— Jim Gerlach
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We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow…
— Edmund Muskie
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A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their…
— Thomas Cahill
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging…
— William Golding
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So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring,…
— Henry Vaughan
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Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools,…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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