The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
EDMUND SPENSERDiscord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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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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Men, 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.
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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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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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