For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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