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.
EDMUND SPENSERLike as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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