In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
EDMUND SPENSERAll love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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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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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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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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But times do change and move continually.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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