Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
EDMUND SPENSERAll love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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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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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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