So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
EDMUND SPENSERSo much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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But times do change and move continually.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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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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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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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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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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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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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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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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