Fretting grief the enemy of life.
EDMUND SPENSERBut times do change and move continually.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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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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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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