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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
Edmund Spenser
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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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Edmund Spencer
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There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her, Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice. For end all good, all grace there freely grows, Had people grace it gratefully to use: For God His gifts there plenteously bestows, But graceless men them greatly do abuse.
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The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife And fretting grief the enemy of life All these and many evils more, haunt ire.
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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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For all that faire is, is by nature goodThat is a signe to know the gentle blood.
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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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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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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And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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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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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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