Could we forbear dispute, and practice love,
More quotes by Edmund Waller
Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
For all we know
Of what the blessed do above
Is, that they sing, and that they love.
To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
Love only enters as a native there,
For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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