Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
EDMUND SPENSERFor 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.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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 if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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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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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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