To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
EDMUND SPENSERFor there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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No 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.
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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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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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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