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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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Edmund Spencer
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
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At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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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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For all that faire is, is by nature goodThat is a signe to know the gentle blood.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names forever memorize!
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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
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