"Poets lose half the praise they should have……" — Edmund Waller
"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."
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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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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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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which…
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It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid.…
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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
— Saadi
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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never…
— Mark Twain
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Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
— James Madison
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God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences,…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain…
— Varlam Shalamov
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The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our…
— William James
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These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact…
— Dick Durbin
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The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.
— Frank Waters
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Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or…
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