The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
EDMUND SPENSERAh! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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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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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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