Edmund Waller quote: "That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high."

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
EDMUND WALLER

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
EDMUND WALLER

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

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
EDMUND WALLER

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but wh...
EDMUND WALLER

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

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
EDMUND WALLER

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
EDMUND WALLER

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
EDMUND WALLER

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
EDMUND WALLER

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to the...
EDMUND WALLER

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still m...
EDMUND WALLER

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
EDMUND WALLER

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
EDMUND WALLER

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
EDMUND WALLER

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
EDMUND WALLER

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
EDMUND WALLER

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

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

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
EDMUND WALLER

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the so...
EDMUND WALLER

The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses...
EDMUND WALLER

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
EDMUND WALLER

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
EDMUND WALLER

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

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
EDMUND WALLER

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of t...
EDMUND WALLER

That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of...
EDMUND WALLER

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
EDMUND WALLER

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.St...
EDMUND WALLER

How small a part of time they share,That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
EDMUND WALLER

Poets that lasting marble seek/ Must carve in Latin or in Greek.
EDMUND WALLER

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

Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, ...
EDMUND WALLER

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time has ma...
EDMUND WALLER

How small a part of time they share,
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
EDMUND WALLER

I'm sure they sat in the stands as well as I did and watched Randallstown. Look, I have been followi...
BUTCH WALLER

We'll come up here and give them a battle tomorrow night. I'm sure we are a 20-point underdog again,...
BUTCH WALLER

Strange things can happen up there. Sometimes kids don't play their game. That's my only concern, th...
BUTCH WALLER

We're not changing anything. I learned that years ago. The key always for us is can we stop their in...
BUTCH WALLER

I have no complaints about the way we're playing. And I'm extremely pleased with the progress from o...
BUTCH WALLER

It takes getting the ball inside and then it loosens up guys on the outside.
BILLY WALLER

I'm real proud of them. Both of them have been playing real hard since they were freshman. I demand ...
BILLY WALLER

In the nine years, we've seen a lot of good ones and have been here five times and won twice after n...
BILLY WALLER

We hit eight 3s early, then hit our foul shots in the last minute.
BILLY WALLER

It was just like when we played them during the regular season. We knew a good start against them is...
BILLY WALLER

They just made the hits. They had a runner on with two outs, then that's when they started hitting t...
BRYAN WALLER

Because so much of York Region is protected by the Oak Ridges Moraine and the greenbelt, there is a ...
JOHN WALLER

As a result of the 'hung' election of November 1932. Hitler set in motion the first of the 9 steps h...
WILLIAM WALLER

If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.
FATS WALLER

So easy, when you know how.
FATS WALLER

Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people a...
FATS WALLER

What these guys are doing is, they're bringing this levee up to 10 feet, and pre-Katrina, this levee...
AL WALLER

It's the front line, you cannot protect New Orleans or Jefferson until you protect St. Bernard.
AL WALLER

My outfit thought I was dead.
AL WALLER

Coach (Eddie) Durrence is the master of small ball. If he gets them on, he'll steal, bunt, whatever,...
ROBERT WALLER

Since 'Pop Idol', I've taken out some lovely lasses, but whether they are interested in me or my bri...
RIK WALLER

Because Nurse was missing we were able to pressure the ball and get turnovers.
BILLY WALLER

It's out of sync. You're combining dressing up with dressing down; it looks confusing -- not fashion...
TERRI WALLER

He'll probably hand down a series of injunctions to stop the specific things he finds to be illegal.
SPENCER WALLER

When you take out the lands that are encumbered or don't have servicing, you come down to an 11.8-ye...
JOHN WALLER

Johnson orchestrated numerous strategic acquisitions to expand the presence of Hormel Foods, most no...
ROBERT WALLER

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
GORDON WALLER

The judge would open up the remedy phase to listen to more evidence.
SPENCER WALLER

If Microsoft wants to paint a picture of judge that is biased, this gives them a little more ammunit...
SPENCER WALLER

We weren't ready to play. They got a huge lead and never recovered from it. In all honesty we didn't...
BILLY WALLER

Senior night can go one of two ways. It can either get your emotions stirred up early and you can co...
BILLY WALLER

We were so pumped up last night for our two girls. I think they were just as pumped up for their gir...
BILLY WALLER

We had good defense, especially our pressure defense in the first quarter.
BILLY WALLER

It was 11-7 at the end of the first quarter. It was actually pretty even, unfortunately, but then we...
BILLY WALLER

It was a game of little runs.
BILLY WALLER

It was pretty balanced. But we need to do a better job of defending the post.
BILLY WALLER

We were ahead 9-4 at the end of one quarter and at the half it was 27-10. We had three threes in the...
BILLY WALLER

I don't think it's a wildly adventurous case, but it shows they're looking at types of competitive r...
SPENCER WALLER

This is so nice, it must be illegal.
FATS WALLER

One never knows, do one?
FATS WALLER

There are no zoning controls in this area. This whole thing could be busted up into 150 five-acre lo...
JIM WALLER

Kevin was too easy a target. Barry Manilow was right to tone his delivery down, but the advice didn'...
DON WALLER

Our words this week were focus, execute and intensity. I don?t know if we showed any of that in the ...
JOHN WALLER

Angela did a good job of fouling off a lot of pitches.
BRYAN WALLER

We were chipping away inning by inning. The girls have been in that situation before, we beat Colema...
BRYAN WALLER

I don't think they want to be perceived as doing a lay-down in some kind of face-saving settlement, ...
SPENCER WALLER

If it works like it does on a 'Berry, it's got to be a cool thing.
JOHN WALLER

The threat to a consumers' data is everywhere. There are worms and viruses on instant messages, web ...
GEORGE WALLER

The difference this time was we hit our 3's. We know rebounding is to our advantage. They did the sa...
ED WALLER

Even though sales have slowed down in other neighborhoods, we have stayed consistent. There is a per...
ED WALLER

When they extended their defense and went on a run, we didn't respond very well at first.
ED WALLER

We've really worked hard to get things ready. Hopefully we won't have any more setbacks and everythi...
JASON WALLER

There's not supposed to be an easy game now. We're in the playoffs and you've got to expect a battle...
HEATH WALLER

I think we take a lot of pride in the fact that we're nice and balanced and we're all unselfish abou...
HEATH WALLER

We've been that way all year and that's just something that you come to expect. It makes us harder t...
HEATH WALLER

We looked at every vehicle in the off-road market. The Rhino was the only vehicle that was capable o...
MARK WALLER

Obviously, it is aimed at trying to encourage qualified individuals to enter Britain.
MARK WALLER

I found out I was selected about two weeks ago. There's a lot of stuff to do to prepare.
MARK WALLER

"Since 'Pop Idol', I've taken out some lovely lasses, but whether they are interested in me or my br...
RIK WALLER

We hit the ball really well. We ran the bases well. Everything we did clicked,
ROBERT WALLER

Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The ...
BRYAN WALLER PROCTOR

Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
BRYAN WALLER PROCTOR

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you...
ROBERT JAMES WALLER

Life is never easy for those who dream.
ROBERT JAMES WALLER

I've decided that I'm going to collect as many spiders in a jar as I can and then pour them all over...
SHARON BIGGS WALLER

Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.
ROBERT JAMES WALLER

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
ROBERT JAMES WALLER

the Chicago Tribune said on February 8, 1937: . . . . there is entertainment in erudition.
JUDITH C. WALLER

Doctor James Rowland Angell has said that 'any program may be regarded as educational (and here we m...
JUDITH C. WALLER

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wis...
ROBERT JAMES WALLER

Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without th...
ROBERT JAMES WALLER

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.
ROBERT JAMES WALLER

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
EDMUND BURKE

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...
EDMUND BURKE

Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this ...
EDMUND MORGAN

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
EDMUND BURKE

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
EDMUND HILLARY

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useles...
EDMUND HILLARY

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the pe...
EDMUND BARTON

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny ...
EDMUND HILLARY

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for ...
EDMUND HILLARY

Ambition can creep as well as soar.
EDMUND BURKE

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE

Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We...
EDMUND PHELPS

Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past ...
EDMUND MORGAN

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under ...
EDMUND BURKE

But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
EDMUND SPENSER

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
EDMUND WILSON

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagi...
EDMUND WILSON

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
EDMUND WILSON

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
EDMUND WILSON

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship...
EDMUND WILSON

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
EDMUND WILSON

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
EDMUND WILSON

No two persons ever read the same book.
EDMUND WILSON

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a so...
EDMUND WILSON

If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been importe...
EDMUND WHITE

I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West...
EDMUND WHITE

If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned to...
EDMUND WHITE

Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends o...
EDMUND WHITE

Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus C...
EDMUND WHITE

Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, i...
EDMUND WHITE

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, a...
EDMUND WHITE

Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it...
EDMUND WHITE

I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it sho...
EDMUND WHITE

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
EDMUND WHITE

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has e...
EDMUND WHITE

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goof...
EDMUND WHITE

In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a ...
EDMUND WHITE

There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That'...
EDMUND WHITE

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of...
EDMUND WHITE

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also t...
EDMUND WHITE

In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys,...
EDMUND WHITE

I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I me...
EDMUND WHITE

Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned...
EDMUND WHITE

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I s...
EDMUND WHITE

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
EDMUND WHITE

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSER

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received ...
EDMUND SPENSER

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
EDMUND SPENSER

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
EDMUND SPENSER

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
EDMUND SPENSER

And all for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSER

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by ...
EDMUND SPENSER

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSER

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
EDMUND SPENSER

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing...
EDMUND PHELPS

Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging outpu...
EDMUND PHELPS

Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid...
EDMUND PHELPS

The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and ...
EDMUND PHELPS

In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism...
EDMUND PHELPS

I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next ...
EDMUND PHELPS

The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work,...
EDMUND PHELPS

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up...
EDMUND PHELPS

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but ...
EDMUND PHELPS

Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the cl...
EDMUND PHELPS

In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a compara...
EDMUND PHELPS

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an ...
EDMUND PHELPS

I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
EDMUND PHELPS

I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are ...
EDMUND PHELPS

At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are...
EDMUND PHELPS

An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare stat...
EDMUND PHELPS

Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies ...
EDMUND PHELPS

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that ...
EDMUND PHELPS

When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and fina...
EDMUND PHELPS

My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the t...
EDMUND PHELPS

Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their con...
EDMUND PHELPS

Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
EDMUND PHELPS

Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constituti...
EDMUND MORGAN

The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particu...
EDMUND MORGAN

Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They ...
EDMUND MORGAN

Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchan...
EDMUND MORGAN

The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer ...
EDMUND MORGAN

It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is ...
EDMUND MORGAN

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson s...
EDMUND MORGAN

Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who...
EDMUND MORGAN

In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jeffer...
EDMUND MORGAN

No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
EDMUND MORGAN

Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, ...
EDMUND MORGAN

The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that the...
EDMUND MORGAN

The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist t...
EDMUND MORGAN

The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did no...
EDMUND MORGAN

To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one fro...
EDMUND MORGAN

That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.

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That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.

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