In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
EDMUND SPENSERTo be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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