Greatest god below the sky.
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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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