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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
Noblest
Contentment
Improvement
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low Those that were low themselves, held others hard He suffered them to ryse or greater grow But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
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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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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion
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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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Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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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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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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For of the soule the bodie forme doth take For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
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Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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