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 SPENSERFor deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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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 sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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