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.
EDMUND SPENSERDiscord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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 gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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