John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2450 Edmund Waller 1606-1687 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2450 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Waller (1606–1687) |
| QUOTATION: | The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. 1 Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On the Divine Poems. |
| Note 1. See Daniel, Quotation 1. To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.—Samuel Rogers: Pæstum. [back] |