The noblest mind the best contentment has.
EDMUND SPENSERMen, 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.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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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 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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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