Together linkt with adamantine chains.
EDMUND SPENSERAll that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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 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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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