Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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But times do change and move continually.
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