Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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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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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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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