"Music so softens and disarms the mind That……" — Edmund Waller
"Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find."
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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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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 Arrow Quotes
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Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18…
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks…
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When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we…
— Richard Sibbes
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While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
— Dante Alighieri
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Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow…
— Rumi
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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50…
— Zig Ziglar
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Sometimes you have tons of money, and still you are miserable, you are not satisfied. The bow of gratitude and…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.
— Sylvia Fraser
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Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.
— Alessandro Baricco
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