Edmund Waller - Hope Quotes

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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.

Edmund Waller

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

Edmund Waller

My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!

Edmund Waller

Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.

Edmund Waller