And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSERFor next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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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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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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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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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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