And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
EDMUND SPENSERFretting grief the enemy of life.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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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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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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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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