For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
EDMUND SPENSERHasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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