A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
EDMUND SPENSERHasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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