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.
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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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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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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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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