All for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSERAll for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSERIll can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
EDMUND SPENSERBe bold, and everywhere be bold.
EDMUND SPENSERTogether linkt with adamantine chains.
EDMUND SPENSERGreatest god below the sky.
EDMUND SPENSERGood is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
EDMUND SPENSERAll sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
EDMUND SPENSERThe gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
EDMUND SPENSERLaws 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.
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.
EDMUND SPENSERMen, 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 SPENSERUnhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
EDMUND SPENSERA circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
EDMUND SPENSERThose that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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