All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
EDMUND SPENSERFor evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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But times do change and move continually.
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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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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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