For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
EDMUND SPENSERThe gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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For 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.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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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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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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