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.
EDMUND SPENSERFor 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.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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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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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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But times do change and move continually.
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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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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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