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.
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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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