And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSERSuch is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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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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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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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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 whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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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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