The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
EDMUND SPENSERThose that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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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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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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