Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
EDMUND SPENSERA 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.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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But 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.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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But times do change and move continually.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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