My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
EDMUND SPENSER
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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