Edmund Waller

Quotes

• “Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find No entrance there, hut virtues stay behind: Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner train Of mortal virtues, at the door remain. Love only enters as a native there, For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.”
• “He that alone would wise and mighty be, Commands that others love as well as he. Love as he lov'd! — How can we soar so high?— He can add wings when he commands to fly. Nor should we be with this command dismay'd; He that examples gives will give his aid: For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall, His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.”
• “Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse,And every conqueror creates a muse.”
• “Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own.”
• “To man, that was in th' evening made,Stars gave the first delight;Admiring, in the gloomy shade,Those little drops of light.”
• “That which her slender waist confinedShall now my joyful temples bind;No monarch but would give his crownHis arms might do what this has done.”

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