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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.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Men #Heaven #Succeed
“Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Time #Rose
“Be bold, and everywhere be bold.”
-- Edmund Spenser
“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#May #Lost #Found
“The noblest mind the best contentment has”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Mind #Self Improvement #Contentment
“And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Stars #Strive #Strife
“Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Leadership #Ill
“Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Charity #Ends
“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

#Ambition #Strive #Lows
“In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Revenge #Hate #Heart
“Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Discord
“The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Book #Home #Patron
“What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in visor fair, And cast her colours dyed deep in grain, To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign, And fitting gestures to her purpose frame, The guiltless man with guile to entertain?”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Wise #Men #Deceit
“Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Death #Common #Good And Bad
“There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her, Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice. For end all good, all grace there freely grows, Had people grace it gratefully to use: For God His gifts there plenteously bestows, But graceless men them greatly do abuse.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Art #Men #People
“The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Bait #Caught #Fishes
“Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Wrath #Rage #Repentance
“Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Yield #Brave #Spurs
“Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Judging #World #Firsts
“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

#Squares #World #Firsts
“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

#Fashion #Heart #Angel
“At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Heaven #Aurora #Golden
“One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipÃ¨d out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Pain #Writing #Men
“Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Long #Ends #Weary
“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.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Weed #Nature #Fall
“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

#Morning #Stars #Drawing
“All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Gay #Decay #World
“The nightingale is sovereign of song.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Song #Sovereign #Nightingales
“And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Pleasure #Paine
“For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.”
-- Edmund Spenser

#Free Will #Praise #Goodness

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