Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
EDMUND SPENSERThe gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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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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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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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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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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