Greatest god below the sky.
EDMUND SPENSERIll can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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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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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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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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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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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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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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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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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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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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