For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
EDMUND SPENSERFor easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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 gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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