Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
EDMUND SPENSERBe bold, and everywhere be bold.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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