In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
EDMUND SPENSERGather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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