Greatest god below the sky.
EDMUND SPENSERThe noblest mind the best contentment has.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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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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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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