All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
EDMUND SPENSERFull little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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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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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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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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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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