The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
EDMUND SPENSERBe bold, and everywhere be bold.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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