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The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Truth
Self
Made
Men
Imitate
Mock
Nature

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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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The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
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Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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