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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
— Edmund Spenser
Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play,
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair — Edmund Spenser
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair — Edmund Spenser
But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
— Edmund Spenser
I was promised on a time
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason. — Edmund Spenser
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason. — Edmund Spenser
Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.
— Edmund Spenser
He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts;
But double griefs afflict concealing harts,
As raging flames who striveth to supresse. — Edmund Spenser
But double griefs afflict concealing harts,
As raging flames who striveth to supresse. — Edmund Spenser
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
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
— Edmund Spenser
Greatest god below the sky.
— Edmund Spenser
Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.
— Edmund Spenser
In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.
— Edmund Spenser
Then came October, full of merry glee.
— Edmund Spenser
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
— Edmund Spenser
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
— Edmund Spenser
Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
— Edmund Spenser
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. ~ Spenser
— Robert B. Parker
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
— Edmund Spenser
Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!
— Thomas Nashe
The nightingale is sovereign of song.
— Edmund Spenser
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
— Edmund Spenser
Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
— Edmund Spenser
The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.
— Edmund Spenser
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. - Edmund Spenser
— Anthony Robbins
Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
— Edmund Spenser
For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;
For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make. — Edmund Spenser
For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make. — Edmund Spenser
I watched them taxi off across the grass and take off.
— Jay Spenser
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
— Edmund Spenser
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
— Edmund Spenser
All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring
In goodly colours gloriously arrayed;
Go to my love, where she is careless laid — Edmund Spenser
In goodly colours gloriously arrayed;
Go to my love, where she is careless laid — Edmund Spenser
Death is an equall doome
To good and bad, the common In of rest. — Edmund Spenser
To good and bad, the common In of rest. — Edmund Spenser
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
— Edmund Spenser
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
— Edmund Spenser
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
— Edmund Spenser
Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life.
— Edmund Spenser
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
— Edmund Spenser
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
— Edmund Spenser
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
— Edmund Spenser
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state,
Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying
Thought — Edmund Spenser
Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying
Thought — Edmund Spenser
The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor.
— Edmund Spenser
Together linkt with adamantine chains.
— Edmund Spenser
And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.
— Edmund Spenser
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
— Edmund Spenser
The noblest mind the best contentment has
— Edmund Spenser
Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Pour out the wine without restraint or stay,
Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful,
Pour out to all that wull. — Edmund Spenser
Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful,
Pour out to all that wull. — Edmund Spenser
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. — Edmund Spenser
Therefore his house is unto his annext:
Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext. — Edmund Spenser
Sluggish idleness
the nurse of sin. — Edmund Spenser
the nurse of sin. — Edmund Spenser
BALDOCK: To die, sweet Spenser, therefore live we all;
Spenser, all live to die, and rise to fall. — Christopher Marlowe
Spenser, all live to die, and rise to fall. — Christopher Marlowe
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known,
For a man by nothing is so well betrayed
As by his manners. — Edmund Spenser
For a man by nothing is so well betrayed
As by his manners. — Edmund Spenser
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
— Edmund Spenser
But times do change and move continually.
— Edmund Spenser
Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.
— Edmund Spenser
Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?
- Epithalamion — Edmund Spenser
And lende me leave to come unto my love?
- Epithalamion — Edmund Spenser
Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.
— Edmund Spenser
For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; — Edmund Spenser
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; — Edmund Spenser
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
Out of the east with flaming locks bedight,
To tell the dawning day is drawing near. — Edmund Spenser
One of Spenser's rules of detection is: Never poke around on an empty stomach. So I unpacked, got my gun, and went down for a club sandwich and
— Robert B. Parker
Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson.
— Winston S. Churchill
The Patron of true Holinesse,
Foule Errour doth defeate:
Hypocrisie him to entrappe,
Doth to his home entreate. — Edmund Spenser
Foule Errour doth defeate:
Hypocrisie him to entrappe,
Doth to his home entreate. — Edmund Spenser
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For many yeares of sorrow can dispence:
A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre — Edmund Spenser
For many yeares of sorrow can dispence:
A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre — Edmund Spenser
All for love, and nothing for reward.
— Edmund Spenser
She bathed with roses red,
And violets blew.
And all the sweetest flowres
That in the forrest grew. — Edmund Spenser
And violets blew.
And all the sweetest flowres
That in the forrest grew. — Edmund Spenser
For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
— Edmund Spenser
from Arlington Street and onto the bridge. He had his hands in his coat pockets. "You Spenser?" he said. "Yes.
— Robert B. Parker
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
— Edmund Spenser
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime,
For none can call again the passed time. — Edmund Spenser
For none can call again the passed time. — Edmund Spenser
In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
— Edmund Spenser
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought;
Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught. — Edmund Spenser
Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught. — Edmund Spenser
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
— Edmund Spenser
There is nothing lost, but may be found, if sought.
(No hay nada perdido, que no pueda encontrarse, si se lo busca) — Edmund Spenser
(No hay nada perdido, que no pueda encontrarse, si se lo busca) — Edmund Spenser
Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best.
— Edmund Spenser
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
— Edmund Spenser
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
— Edmund Spenser
There's no justice for the back seat.
— Jax Spenser
So Orpheus did for his owne bride,
So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring. — Edmund Spenser
So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring. — Edmund Spenser
To be wise and eke to love,
Is granted scarce to gods above. — Edmund Spenser
Is granted scarce to gods above. — Edmund Spenser
And he that strives to touch the stars
Oft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser
Oft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser
Why then should witless man so much misweene
That nothing is but that which he hath seene? — Edmund Spenser
That nothing is but that which he hath seene? — Edmund Spenser
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
— Edmund Spenser
Yet nothing did he dread, but euer was ydrad.
— Edmund Spenser