She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
EDMUND SPENSERSo much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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