Edmund Spenser on justice
Edmund Spenser84 quotes“But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.”
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser The noblest mind the best contentment has.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser 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.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser 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.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Fretting grief the enemy of life.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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