The noblest mind the best contentment has.
EDMUND SPENSERLaws 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.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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