For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
EDMUND SPENSERAll for love, and nothing for reward.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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