How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
EDMUND SPENSERHard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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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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But times do change and move continually.
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