Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
EDMUND SPENSERGather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Full 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.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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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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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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