For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
EDMUND SPENSERSo much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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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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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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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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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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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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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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