Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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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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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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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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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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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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