Famous quotes by Edmund Waller:

"Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode."

"And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear."

"Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse."

"Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new."

"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."

"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest."

"The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,"

"Stronger by weakness, wiser men become."

"Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round."

"How small a part of time they share,"

"All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings."

"His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught."

"Give us enough but with a sparing hand."

"To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!"

"Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene."

"Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be."

"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"

"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."

"The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field."