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 SPENSERGood is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
-
-
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
EDMUND SPENSER -
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Me 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.
EDMUND SPENSER -
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.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
EDMUND SPENSER -
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
EDMUND SPENSER -
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
EDMUND SPENSER -
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
EDMUND SPENSER -
All for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
EDMUND SPENSER







