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.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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