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 SPENSERMe 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.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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But times do change and move continually.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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