What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
EDMUND SPENSERFull little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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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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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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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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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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