Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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