All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
EDMUND SPENSERBut Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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