Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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But times do change and move continually.
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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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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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