Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
EDMUND SPENSERIn vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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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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