Quote#Love
Could we forbear dispute, and practice love
Quote byEdmund Waller · 1606–1687
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Of Divine Love (c. 1686), Canto III..
English (original)
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.
— Edmund Waller
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