All for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSERFondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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