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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Fretting grief the enemy of life.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser 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
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser
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