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?
EDMUND SPENSERHasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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But times do change and move continually.
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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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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.
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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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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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