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• The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
  Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home...
• Th' MIND is the Pizza Palace of th' SOUL -- Zippy the Pinhead
• How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Go, Lovely Rose...
• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Panegyric on Cromwell...
• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Of English Verse...
• The yielding marble of her snowy breast.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- On a Lady passing through a Crowd of People...
• Could we forbear dispute and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Divine Love, Canto iii...
• For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- While I listen to thy Voice...
• Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Upon the Death of the Lord Protecto...