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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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Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.
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Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
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Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
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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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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
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Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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