All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
EDMUND SPENSERGather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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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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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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