Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
EDMUND SPENSERHasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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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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