This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
EDMUND SPENSERGreatest god below the sky.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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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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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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