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.
EDMUND SPENSERI was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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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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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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