For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
EDMUND SPENSERBe bold, and everywhere be bold.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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