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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state for misery doth bravest minds abate.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
Translator
London
England
Edmund Spencer
States
Bravest
Heart
Doth
Mind
Lowest
World
Iron
Misery
Hearts
Minds
State
Abate

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