And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSERWho will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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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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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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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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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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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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