Inspirational Quotes by Edmund Spenser

Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.

— Edmund Spenser

Entire affection hateth nicer hands.

— Edmund Spenser

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

— Edmund Spenser

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

— Edmund Spenser

Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

— Edmund Spenser

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.

— Edmund Spenser

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.

— Edmund Spenser

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

— Edmund Spenser

There is no disputing about taste.

— Edmund Spenser

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.

— Edmund Spenser

Then came October, full of merry glee.

— Edmund Spenser

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

— Edmund Spenser

Be bold, and everywhere be bold.

— Edmund Spenser

For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.

— Edmund Spenser

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

— Edmund Spenser

But times do change and move continually.

— Edmund Spenser

Together linkt with adamantine chains.

— Edmund Spenser

No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might…

— Edmund Spenser

The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things doth sway.

— Edmund Spenser