Edmund Spenser

“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.”

“What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?”

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

“The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known.”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“For of the soul the body form doth take; for soul is form and doth the body make.”

“And all for love, and nothing for reward.”

“Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?”

“Gather the rose of love, whilst yet is time.”

“The mildest speech has yet a sovereign power.”

“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”

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

“For deeds do die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men do as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.”

“Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, Jealousy.”