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 SPENSERSuch is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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.
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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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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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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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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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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.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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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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