Quote

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

Edmund Spenser

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
Translator
London
England
Edmund Spencer
Words
May
Better
Borne
Deeds
Evil

More quotes by Edmund Spenser

Image
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
Edmund Spenser
Image
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state for misery doth bravest minds abate.
Edmund Spenser
Image
But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
Edmund Spenser
Image
For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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
Fly from wrath sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
Edmund Spenser
Image
For all that faire is, is by nature goodThat is a signe to know the gentle blood.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
Edmund Spenser
Image
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.
Edmund Spenser
Image
The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.
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
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
Edmund Spenser
Image
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
Edmund Spenser