And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
EDMUND SPENSERGreatest god below the sky.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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