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The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
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Oft stumbles at a straw.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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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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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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