The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
EDMUND SPENSERSo let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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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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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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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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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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