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.
EDMUND SPENSERSweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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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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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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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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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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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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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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