Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
EDMUND SPENSERSo much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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