Fretting grief the enemy of life.
EDMUND SPENSERMake haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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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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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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