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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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