wax quotes

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 22:14.

His heart was one of those which most enamour us, Wax to receive, and marble to retain.

-Rochdale
  Beppo, stanza 34.

I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest, My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning. The world shall find this miracle in me, That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

-Daniel, Samuel
  Delia, sonnet 33.

Being kissed bya man who didn't wax his moustache wasölike eating an egg without salt.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  The Story of the Gadsbys,'Poor Dear Mamma'.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honeyand wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

-Swift,Jonathan
  The Battle of the Books.

   Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more.

-Watts, Isaac
  The Psalms of David Imitated, Psalm 72.

We'll trot downtothemovies and seehowgirlswithwax faces live.

-Wilder,Thornton Niven
  The Skin of OurTeeth, act 3.

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