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

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Gracious
Profitable
Doctrine
Rule
Example
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion
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O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
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And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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