Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
EDMUND SPENSERThe noblest mind the best contentment has.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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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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