Though with judgment we on things reflect, Our will determines, not our intellect.
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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.Edmund Waller
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,As they draw near to their eternal home.
Edmund Waller
That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
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.
Edmund Waller
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Edmund Waller
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
Edmund Waller
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