The noblest mind the best contentment has.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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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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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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But times do change and move continually.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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