Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
EDMUND SPENSERBut times do change and move continually.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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