Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSERIll can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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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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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 we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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