Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
EDMUND SPENSERHard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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