The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
EDMUND SPENSERGood is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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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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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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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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