For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
EDMUND SPENSERFly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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