Edmund Spenser Quotes

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• All for love, and nothing for reward.

  Edmund Spenser

  Love, Falling In Love, Love You

  The Faerie Queen bk. 2, canto 8, st. 2 (1596)

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• Be bold, and everywhere be bold.

  Edmund Spenser

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 3, canto 11, st. 54

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• Thankfulness is the tune of angels.

  Edmund Spenser

  Gratitude, Angel, Thankfulness

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• For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

  Edmund Spenser

  May, Lost, Found

  Edmund Spenser, Abraham Stoll (2006). “The Faerie Queene, Book Five”, p.28, Hackett Publishing

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• So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

  Edmund Spenser

  Example, Doctrine, Gracious

  "The First Book of Spenser's Faerie Queene".

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• Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
  That it can alter all the course of kind.

  Edmund Spenser

  Mind, Kind, Power Of Love

  Edmund Spenser, John Aikin (1810). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ... from the text of J. Upton. With a preface, biographical and critical, by J. Aikin”, p.162

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• Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

  Edmund Spenser

  Time, Flower, Romantic Love

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

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• She bathed with roses red,
  And violets blew.
  And all the sweetest flowres
  That in the forrest grew.

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Rose, Red

  Edmund Spenser (2003). “The Faerie Queene”, p.704, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Rhyming, Reason, Rhyme

  'Lines on his Pension'; attributed

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• But times do change and move continually.

  Edmund Spenser

  Change, Moving

  Edmund Spenser (1758). “THE FAERIE QUEENE.”, p.456

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• Fretting grief the enemy of life.

  Edmund Spenser

  Grief, Enemy, Fretting

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 4, stanza 35.

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• And he that strives to touch the stars
  Oft stumbles at a straw.

  Edmund Spenser

  Stars, Strive, Strife

  The Shepherd's Calendar "July" l. 99 (1579)

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• Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

  Edmund Spenser

  Beauty, Men, Shows

  'An Hymn in Honour of Beauty' l. 90

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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

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• For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fall, May, Tides

  Edmund Spenser, Abraham Stoll (2006). “The Faerie Queene, Book Five”, p.28, Hackett Publishing

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• So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought;
  Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

  Edmund Spenser

  God, Love Is, Taught

  'Amoretti' (1595) sonnet 68

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• The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

  Edmund Spenser

  Survival, Genius, Stones

  "The Shepheardes Calender". Book by Edmund Spenser, 1715.

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• Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

  Edmund Spenser

  Love, Eye, Angel

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 1, canto 3, st. 4

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• The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known,
  For a man by nothing is so well betrayed
  As by his manners.

  Edmund Spenser

  Men, Mind, Deeds

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 6, canto 3, st. 1

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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.

  Edmund Spenser

  Heart, Men, Air

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• O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

  Edmund Spenser

  Mind, Ambitious, Sacred

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 5, canto 12, st. 1

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• Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
  Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
  Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere;
  Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough;
  Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
  Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
  Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
  And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Growing Up, Nuts

  Edmund Spenser, “Sonnet XXVI”

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

  Edmund Spenser

  Firsts, Vain, Temper

  Edmund Spenser (1715). “The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser”, p.872

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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.

  Edmund Spenser

  Morning, Stars, Drawing

  Edmund Spenser (1758). “The Fairy Queen”, p.170

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• Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

  Edmund Spenser

  Men, Evening, States

  Edmund Spenser (1805). “The works of Edmund Spenser, with notes by H.J. Todd”, p.26

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