What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
EDMUND SPENSERAnd he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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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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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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