What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
EDMUND SPENSERFondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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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 flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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