But times do change and move continually.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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