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Edmund Spenser Quote - Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

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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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Curse Feed Happiness Heart Jealous Lose Misery
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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King Love Spring
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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Call Man Myself Right Virtue Wrong
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Fly Happiness Thinking Wings
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Choice Freedom Goodness Praise Sick Willing
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Action Brave Care Deserve Excellence Freedom Goodness Praise Virtue Willing
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Inspirational Love Power
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Blissful Delight Garden Growth Happiness Immortal
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Beautiful Flower Forest Growth Herself Love Relationship Rose
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
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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Cold Desire Fire Greatness Growth Hard Love Myself
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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Action Blame Heaven Man Success
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Eyes Joy Missing Night
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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Bright Eternity Fate Forever Heaven Ourselves

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