Edmund Spenser Quotes

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

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.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

All for love, and nothing for reward.

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

Sluggish idleness—the nurse of sin.

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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.