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.
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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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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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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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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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