Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
EDMUND SPENSERFor there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Those 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.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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