Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
EDMUND SPENSERFretting grief the enemy of life.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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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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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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But times do change and move continually.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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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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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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