Edmund Waller - Love Quotes

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

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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.

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So all we know Of what they do above Is that they happy are, and that they love.

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He that alone would wise and mighty be,
Commands that others love as well as he.
Love as he lov'd! — How can we soar so high?—
He can add wings when he commands to fly.
Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;
He that examples gives will give his aid:
For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,
His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.

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

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For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.

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For all we know
Of what the blessed do above
Is, that they sing, and that they love.

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

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Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.

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