All for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSERFor 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.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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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 minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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