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Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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Edmund Spencer
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
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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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What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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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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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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