Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
EDMUND SPENSERJoy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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