Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
EDMUND SPENSER
Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Men, 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.
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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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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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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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Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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