Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
EDMUND SPENSERThe man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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But times do change and move continually.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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