Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
EDMUND SPENSERAll for love, and nothing for reward.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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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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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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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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