For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
EDMUND SPENSERSluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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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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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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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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