Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
EDMUND SPENSERSluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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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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For 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.
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But times do change and move continually.
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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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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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