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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
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Power
Kind
Mind
Love
Alter
Gentle
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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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Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.
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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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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
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