Author: Edmund Waller

Quotes

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

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

- Edmund Waller

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

- Edmund Waller

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

- Edmund Waller

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

- Edmund Waller

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

- Edmund Waller

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.

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.

- Edmund Waller

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

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

- Edmund Waller

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