And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
EDMUND SPENSERHow many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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 love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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