Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
EDMUND SPENSERFor whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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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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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 man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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