Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
EDMUND SPENSERThe gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? 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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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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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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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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