The noblest mind the best contentment has.
EDMUND SPENSERIn one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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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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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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