This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
EDMUND SPENSERFoul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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