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.
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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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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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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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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