But times do change and move continually.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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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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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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