The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
EDMUND SPENSERGreatest god below the sky.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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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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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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