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.
EDMUND SPENSERGather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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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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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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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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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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