Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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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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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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