And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSERThe fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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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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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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But times do change and move continually.
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