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Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.
Edmund Spenser
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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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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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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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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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Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
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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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Fly from wrath sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.
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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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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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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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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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The nightingale is sovereign of song.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.
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