She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
EDMUND SPENSERIn vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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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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