What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
EDMUND SPENSERFresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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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 that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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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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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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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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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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