For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
EDMUND SPENSERFor if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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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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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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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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