To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
EDMUND SPENSERTogether linkt with adamantine chains.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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