To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
EDMUND SPENSERAll that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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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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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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