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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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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For 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.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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