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Edmund Waller

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

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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.

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Edmund Waller

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

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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

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

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Edmund Waller

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

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Edmund Waller

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

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Edmund Waller

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

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Edmund Waller

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

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Edmund Waller

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

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Edmund Waller

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.

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Edmund Waller

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

– Edmund Waller

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