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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Good
Giveth
Charity
None
Spend
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
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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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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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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.
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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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Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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