Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
EDMUND SPENSERFor 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.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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 easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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For 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.
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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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