Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
EDMUND SPENSERFondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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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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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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For 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.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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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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