The noblest mind the best contentment has.
EDMUND SPENSERBut angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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