To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
EDMUND SPENSERFor if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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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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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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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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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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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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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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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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