All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
EDMUND SPENSERMen, 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.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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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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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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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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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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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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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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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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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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But times do change and move continually.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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