And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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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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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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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 times do change and move continually.
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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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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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