Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
EDMUND SPENSERFor since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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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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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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