Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
EDMUND SPENSERFor there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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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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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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But times do change and move continually.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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