So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
EDMUND SPENSERThe gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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