Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
EDMUND SPENSERAll that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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