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.
EDMUND SPENSERGreatest god below the sky.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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.
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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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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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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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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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