All for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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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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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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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