Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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