| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Waller |
| | | Circles are prais’d, not that abound / In largeness, but th’ exactly round; / So life we praise, that does excel, / Not in much time, but acting well. | 1 |
| Could we forbear dispute and practise love, / We should agree as angels do above. | 2 |
| Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, / And every conqueror creates a muse. | 3 |
| Music so softens and disarms the mind, / That not an arrow does resistance find. | 4 |
| Poets lose half the praise they should have got, / Could it be known what they discreetly blot. | 5 |
| The fountain which from Helicon proceeds, / That sacred stream, should never water weeds. | 6 |
| The sacred wrestler, till a blessing given, / Quits not his hold, but, halting, conquers heaven. | 7 |
| The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. | 8 |
| Toils of empires pleasures are. | 9 | | |
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