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.
EDMUND SPENSERHer angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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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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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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