In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
EDMUND SPENSERTogether linkt with adamantine chains.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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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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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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