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Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
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Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
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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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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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