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Edmund Spenser Inspirational Quotes (70)

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The noblest mind the best contentment has
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For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
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For of the soule the bodie forme doth take For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.
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Oft stumbles at a straw.
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
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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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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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Those that were up themselves, kept others low Those that were low themselves, held others hard He suffered them to ryse or greater grow But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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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.
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The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.
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Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
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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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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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