Greatest god below the sky.
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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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But times do change and move continually.
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