She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
EDMUND SPENSERNo dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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