Greatest god below the sky.
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.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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A 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.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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