The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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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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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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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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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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