All for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSERAll flesh doth frailty breed!
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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But times do change and move continually.
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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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