All for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSERHer angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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