Greatest god below the sky.
EDMUND SPENSERDiscord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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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 gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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