For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
EDMUND SPENSERAll for love, and nothing for reward.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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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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