Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
EDMUND SPENSERFretting grief the enemy of life.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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 one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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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 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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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Greatest god below the sky.
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