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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
Translator
London
England
Edmund Spencer
Made
Men
Imitate
Mock
Nature
Truth
Self

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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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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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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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Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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The nightingale is sovereign of song.
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Oft stumbles at a straw.
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So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.
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