"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor……" — Edmund Waller
"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."
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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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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
— Abu Bakr
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich…
— Bono
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I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away…
— Elayne Boosler
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In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that…
— Unknown Author
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We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It…
— Adolf Hitler
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
— Plautus
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It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to…
— Pat Robertson
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