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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Together linkt with adamantine chains.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser 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.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser 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.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser 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.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John MiltonJohn Milton The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has never before found herself in such dire straits.
NostradamusNostradamus To the Spains will come a very powerful king, by land and sea subjugating the South; This will cause harm, lowering again the crescent, clipping the wings of those of Friday.
NostradamusNostradamus Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
Jack LondonJack London In my 25-30 years of experience in the markets, just as you cannot have a good relationship with a woman by bullying her, you cannot have a good relationship with the market by trying to bully it or say that you are the king. Market is king.
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Bruce SpringsteenBruce Springsteen It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
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