How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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But times do change and move continually.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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