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Edmund Spenser Inspirational Quotes (70)

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The nightingale is sovereign of song.
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Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife And fretting grief the enemy of life All these and many evils more, haunt ire.
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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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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What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought : For whatsoever from one place doth fall Is with the tyde unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.
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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
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Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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For all that faire is, is by nature goodThat is a signe to know the gentle blood.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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