Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
EDMUND SPENSERFondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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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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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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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 for love, and nothing for reward.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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