Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSERFor there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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