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.
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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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