Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? 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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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