In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
EDMUND SPENSERAll for love, and nothing for reward.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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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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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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