Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
EDMUND SPENSERBe bold, and everywhere be bold.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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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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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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