Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
EDMUND SPENSERSo much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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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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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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But times do change and move continually.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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