Edmund Spenser Quotes
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A man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. - The air fills not the body, neither does money the covetous heart of man.
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A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
[Discipline]
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Base-minded they that lack intelligence; for God himself for wisdom most is praised, and men to God thereby are highest raised.
[Knowledge]
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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He whose days in wilful woe are worn, the grace of his Creator doth despise, that will not use his gifts for thankless niggardise.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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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.
[Poetry]
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
[Mind]
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Lovely concord and most sacred peace doth nourish virtue, and fast friendship breed.
[Peace]
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Much more gracious and profitable is doctrine by ensample, than by rule.
[Example]
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No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instance wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.
[Temptation]
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O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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The noblest mind the best contentent has.
[Contentment]
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
[Genius]
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The troubled blood through his pale face was seen to come and go with tidings from his heart, as it a running messenger had been.
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