Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
EDMUND SPENSERSo much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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