So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
EDMUND SPENSERThankfulness is the tune of angels.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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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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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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