In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
EDMUND SPENSERHasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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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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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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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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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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