Quote

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

Edmund Spenser

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
Translator
London
England
Edmund Spencer
Firsts
First
Subdue
Suppress
Hath
Temper
Vain
Learn
Others

More quotes by Edmund Spenser

Image
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
Edmund Spenser
Image
How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names forever memorize!
Edmund Spenser
Image
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
Image
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state for misery doth bravest minds abate.
Edmund Spenser
Image
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.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
Edmund Spenser
Image
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
Image
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
Edmund Spenser
Image
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.
Edmund Spenser
Image
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
Edmund Spenser
Image
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.
Edmund Spenser
Image
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser
Image
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.
Edmund Spenser
Image
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
Edmund Spenser
Image
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.
Edmund Spenser
Image
The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
Edmund Spenser
Image
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
Edmund Spenser