But times do change and move continually.
EDMUND SPENSERLike as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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