The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.

- Edmund Waller

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

- Edmund Waller

All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.

- Edmund Waller

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

- Edmund Waller

Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy t…

- Edmund Waller

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

- Edmund Waller

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

- Edmund Waller

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

- Edmund Waller

Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It makes a hero l…

- Edmund Waller