"The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to……" — Edmund Waller
"The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field."
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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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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
— Unknown Author
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Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a…
— Francis Bacon
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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State…
— Jonathan Swift
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Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak…
— Edwin Markham
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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
— William C. Bryant
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But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping…
— William Shakespeare
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One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with…
— Wallace Stevens
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I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great…
— Diego Rivera
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Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.
— Andrew Marvell
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Peace to these little broken leaves, That strew our common ground; That chase their tails, like silly dogs, As they…
— William Henry Davies
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