For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
EDMUND SPENSERFor since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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But times do change and move continually.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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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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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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Those 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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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 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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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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