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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem. — Edmund Spenser

Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time. — Edmund Spenser

Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play,
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair — Edmund Spenser

But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. — Edmund Spenser

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

Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace. — Edmund Spenser

He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts;
But double griefs afflict concealing harts,
As raging flames who striveth to supresse. — Edmund Spenser

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

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne. — Edmund Spenser

Greatest god below the sky. — Edmund Spenser

Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love. — Edmund Spenser

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

Fondnesse it were for any being free,
To covet fetters, though they golden bee. — Edmund Spenser

So passeth, in the passing of a day,
Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre — Edmund Spenser

I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes. — Edmund Spenser

Then came October, full of merry glee. — Edmund Spenser

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. — Edmund Spenser

Be bold, and everywhere be bold. — Edmund Spenser

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords. — Edmund Spenser

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate. — Edmund Spenser

I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie. — Edmund Spenser

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate. — Edmund Spenser

For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood. — Edmund Spenser

Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have? — Edmund Spenser

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke. — Edmund Spenser

The nightingale is sovereign of song. — Edmund Spenser

Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine. — Edmund Spenser

Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway. — Edmund Spenser

Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust. — Edmund Spenser

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. — Edmund Spenser

Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win. — Edmund Spenser

Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late. — Edmund Spenser

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? — Edmund Spenser

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. - Edmund Spenser — Anthony Robbins

Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule. — Edmund Spenser

The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite. — Edmund Spenser

The noblest mind the best contentment has — Edmund Spenser

The Patron of true Holinesse,
Foule Errour doth defeate:
Hypocrisie him to entrappe,
Doth to his home entreate. — Edmund Spenser

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care. — Edmund Spenser

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known,
For a man by nothing is so well betrayed
As by his manners. — Edmund Spenser

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

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser

Thankfulness is the tune of angels. — Edmund Spenser

For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; — Edmund Spenser

Sluggish idleness
the nurse of sin. — Edmund Spenser

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

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay,
Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful,
Pour out to all that wull. — Edmund Spenser

Together linkt with adamantine chains. — Edmund Spenser

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state,
Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying
Thought — Edmund Spenser

Gold all is not that doth golden seem. — Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine. — Edmund Spenser

The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor. — Edmund Spenser

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

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall. — Edmund Spenser

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. — Edmund Spenser

All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss. — Edmund Spenser

[...] one louing howre
For many yeares of sorrow can dispence:
A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre — Edmund Spenser

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

All for love, and nothing for reward. — Edmund Spenser

She bathed with roses red,
And violets blew.
And all the sweetest flowres
That in the forrest grew. — Edmund Spenser

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

Hark, how the cheerful birds do chaunt their lays, and carol of love's praise. — Edmund Spenser

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store. — Edmund Spenser

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin. — Edmund Spenser

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. — Edmund Spenser

Waking love suffereth no sleepe:
Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke:
Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall. — Edmund Spenser

All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever. — Edmund Spenser

Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king. — Edmund Spenser

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. — Edmund Spenser

There is nothing lost, but may be found, if sought.
(No hay nada perdido, que no pueda encontrarse, si se lo busca) — Edmund Spenser

Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best. — Edmund Spenser

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. — Edmund Spenser

The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things doth sway. — Edmund Spenser

And all for love, and nothing for reward. — Edmund Spenser

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

So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought;
Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught. — Edmund Spenser

To be wise and eke to love,
Is granted scarce to gods above. — Edmund Spenser

And he that strives to touch the stars
Oft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser

All that in this world is great or gay,
Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay. — Edmund Spenser

But times do change and move continually. — Edmund Spenser

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

Why then should witless man so much misweene
That nothing is but that which he hath seene? — Edmund Spenser

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds. — Edmund Spenser

For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;
For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make. — Edmund Spenser

Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?
- Epithalamion — Edmund Spenser

I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see. — Edmund Spenser

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate. — Edmund Spenser

Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime,
For none can call again the passed time. — Edmund Spenser

Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song. — Edmund Spenser

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. — Edmund Spenser

Like as the culver on the bared bough
Sits mourning for the absence of her mate — Edmund Spenser

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy. — Edmund Spenser

Fretting grief the enemy of life. — Edmund Spenser

Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life. — Edmund Spenser

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. — Edmund Spenser

Death is an equall doome
To good and bad, the common In of rest. — Edmund Spenser

For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought. — Edmund Spenser

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. — Edmund Spenser

Yet nothing did he dread, but euer was ydrad. — Edmund Spenser