And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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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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