For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
EDMUND SPENSERMe seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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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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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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