Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
EDMUND SPENSERFor there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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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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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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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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