198 Quotes by Edmund Spenser
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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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What cannot be cured must be endured.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Who will not mercy unto others show. How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile.
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Then came fair May, the fairest maid on ground, / Decked all with dainties of her seasons pride, / And throwing flowers out of her lap around : / Upon two brethrens’ shoulders she did ride.
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And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedy crop of care.
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Most glorious Lord of lyfe, that on this day / Didst make thy triumph over death and sin, / And having harrowed hell, didst bring away / Captivity thence captive, us to win: / This joyous day, deare Lord, with joy begin.
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For not that, which men covet most, is best, / Nor that thing worst, which men do most refuse; / But fittest is, that all contented rest, / With that they hold: each half is a fortune in his breast.
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