For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
EDMUND SPENSERWoe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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