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 SPENSERYet 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.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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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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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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.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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