"The seas are quiet when the winds give……" — Edmund Waller
"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"
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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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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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A calm environment is for after I finish work.
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
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