For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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But times do change and move continually.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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