Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
EDMUND SPENSERFondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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