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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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Fly from wrath sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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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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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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The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
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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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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.
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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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