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Edmund Spenser quotes: Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time. Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play,A gentle spirit, that lightly did delayHot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play,
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair
Edmund Spenser quotes: But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
Edmund Spenser quotes: I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. I was promised on a time
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace. Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.
Edmund Spenser quotes: He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse. He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts;
But double griefs afflict concealing harts,
As raging flames who striveth to supresse.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.
Edmund Spenser quotes: He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw. He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew. Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
Edmund Spenser quotes: For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne. For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love. Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.
Edmund Spenser quotes: In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey. In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Fondnesse it were for any being free,To covet fetters, though they golden bee. Fondnesse it were for any being free,
To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
Edmund Spenser quotes: So passeth, in the passing of a day,Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre So passeth, in the passing of a day,
Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre
Edmund Spenser quotes: I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes. I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Then came October, full of merry glee. Then came October, full of merry glee.
Edmund Spenser quotes: And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Be bold, and everywhere be bold. Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords. Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
Edmund Spenser quotes: This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate. This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
Edmund Spenser quotes: I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie. I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.
Edmund Spenser quotes: The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate. The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
Edmund Spenser quotes: For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood. For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have? Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
Edmund Spenser quotes: Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke. Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
Edmund Spenser quotes: The nightingale is sovereign of song. The nightingale is sovereign of song.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine. Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway. Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust. Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
Edmund Spenser quotes: The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win. Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late. Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
Edmund Spenser quotes: What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
Edmund Spenser quotes: Pour out the wine without restraint or stay,Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull. Pour out the wine without restraint or stay,
Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful,
Pour out to all that wull.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Together linkt with adamantine chains. Together linkt with adamantine chains.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state,Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flyingThought Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state,
Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying
Thought
Edmund Spenser quotes: Thankfulness is the tune of angels. Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
Edmund Spenser quotes: For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make. For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;
For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Gold all is not that doth golden seem. Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Edmund Spenser quotes: 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. 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.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Sluggish idlenessthe nurse of sin. Sluggish idleness
the nurse of sin.
Edmund Spenser quotes: A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine. A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.
Edmund Spenser quotes: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought. For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
Edmund Spenser quotes: The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser quotes: For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright. For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
Edmund Spenser quotes: The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known,For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners. The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known,
For a man by nothing is so well betrayed
As by his manners.
Edmund Spenser quotes: The noblest mind the best contentment has The noblest mind the best contentment has
Edmund Spenser quotes: The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite. The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
Edmund Spenser quotes: And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine. And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.
Edmund Spenser quotes: The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor. The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Edmund Spenser quotes: All sorts of flowers the which on earth do springIn goodly colours gloriously arrayed;Go to my love, where she is careless laid All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring
In goodly colours gloriously arrayed;
Go to my love, where she is careless laid
Edmund Spenser quotes: Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser quotes: From good to bad, and from bad to worse,From worse unto that is worst of all,And then return to his former fall. From good to bad, and from bad to worse,
From worse unto that is worst of all,
And then return to his former fall.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit! Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
Edmund Spenser quotes: Hark, how the cheerful birds do chaunt their lays, and carol of love's praise. Hark, how the cheerful birds do chaunt their lays, and carol of love's praise.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Each goodly thing is hardest to begin. Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Waking love suffereth no sleepe:Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke:Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall. Waking love suffereth no sleepe:
Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke:
Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
Edmund Spenser quotes: O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!
Edmund Spenser quotes: 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. 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.
Edmund Spenser quotes: For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;
Edmund Spenser quotes: Yet nothing did he dread, but euer was ydrad. Yet nothing did he dread, but euer was ydrad.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Bright as does the morning star appear,Out of the east with flaming locks bedight,To tell the dawning day is drawing near. Bright as does the morning star appear,
Out of the east with flaming locks bedight,
To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
Edmund Spenser quotes: But times do change and move continually. But times do change and move continually.
Edmund Spenser quotes: All that in this world is great or gay,Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay. All that in this world is great or gay,
Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
Edmund Spenser quotes: All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever. All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king. Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love?- Epithalamion Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?
- Epithalamion
Edmund Spenser quotes: I hate the day, because it lendeth lightTo see all things, but not my love to see. I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song. Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.
Edmund Spenser quotes: O sacred hunger of ambitious minds. O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule. Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
Edmund Spenser quotes: And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care. And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.
Edmund Spenser quotes: The Patron of true Holinesse,Foule Errour doth defeate:Hypocrisie him to entrappe,Doth to his home entreate. The Patron of true Holinesse,
Foule Errour doth defeate:
Hypocrisie him to entrappe,
Doth to his home entreate.
Edmund Spenser quotes: All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss. All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
Edmund Spenser quotes: [...] one louing howreFor many yeares of sorrow can dispence:A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre [...] one louing howre
For many yeares of sorrow can dispence:
A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre
Edmund Spenser quotes: All for love, and nothing for reward. All for love, and nothing for reward.
Edmund Spenser quotes: She bathed with roses red, And violets blew.And all the sweetest flowresThat in the forrest grew. She bathed with roses red,
And violets blew.
And all the sweetest flowres
That in the forrest grew.
Edmund Spenser quotes: For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store. For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
Edmund Spenser quotes: It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life. Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Fretting grief the enemy of life. Fretting grief the enemy of life.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy. Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Like as the culver on the bared boughSits mourning for the absence of her mate Like as the culver on the bared bough
Sits mourning for the absence of her mate
Edmund Spenser quotes: In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime,For none can call again the passed time. Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime,
For none can call again the passed time.
Edmund Spenser quotes: In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate. In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
Edmund Spenser quotes: So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought;Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught. So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought;
Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Death is an equall doomeTo good and bad, the common In of rest. Death is an equall doome
To good and bad, the common In of rest.
Edmund Spenser quotes: There is nothing lost, but may be found, if sought.(No hay nada perdido, que no pueda encontrarse, si se lo busca) There is nothing lost, but may be found, if sought.
(No hay nada perdido, que no pueda encontrarse, si se lo busca)
Edmund Spenser quotes: Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best. Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best.
Edmund Spenser quotes: The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
Edmund Spenser quotes: The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things doth sway. The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things doth sway.
Edmund Spenser quotes: And all for love, and nothing for reward. And all for love, and nothing for reward.
Edmund Spenser quotes: So Orpheus did for his owne bride,So I unto my selfe alone will sing,The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring. So Orpheus did for his owne bride,
So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.
Edmund Spenser quotes: To be wise and eke to love,Is granted scarce to gods above. To be wise and eke to love,
Is granted scarce to gods above.
Edmund Spenser quotes: And he that strives to touch the starsOft stumbles at a straw. And he that strives to touch the stars
Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser quotes: Why then should witless man so much misweeneThat nothing is but that which he hath seene? Why then should witless man so much misweene
That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

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