Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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 evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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