Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
EDMUND SPENSERThe Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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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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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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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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