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.
EDMUND SPENSERThe noblest mind the best contentment has.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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But times do change and move continually.
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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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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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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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