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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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London
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Edmund Spencer
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Love
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Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
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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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Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.
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There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her, Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice. For end all good, all grace there freely grows, Had people grace it gratefully to use: For God His gifts there plenteously bestows, But graceless men them greatly do abuse.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low Those that were low themselves, held others hard He suffered them to ryse or greater grow But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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