Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
EDMUND SPENSERFretting grief the enemy of life.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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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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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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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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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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