All for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSERIll can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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