black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.

Edmund Spenser

But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
EDMUND SPENSER

Angel Desire Fashion Heart Leadership Stop Talk Teaching
All flesh doth frailty breed!
EDMUND SPENSER

Body Flesh Fragile
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSER

Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
EDMUND SPENSER

Action Gentle Mindset
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
EDMUND SPENSER

Himself Home Hypocrisy True
For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
EDMUND SPENSER

Easy Man Willing
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

Fashion Law Manner Right Rule Simplicity
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
EDMUND SPENSER

Blissful Delight Garden Growth Happiness Immortal
A 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.
EDMUND SPENSER

Attraction Comfortable Eyes Grace Kind Sweet Thinking
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
EDMUND SPENSER

Himself Learning Wasted
Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
EDMUND SPENSER

Greatness Growth Hard Hold Low Oneself Suffering
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
EDMUND SPENSER

Lesson Love Teaching
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
EDMUND SPENSER

Grace Profit Rule
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
EDMUND SPENSER

Angry Late Repent
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
EDMUND SPENSER

Heart Mindset Misery World
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
EDMUND SPENSER

Adversity Fall Flower Right

Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Edmund Spenser Quotes