Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
EDMUND SPENSERFresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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