Edmund Spenser Quotes (11 quotes)

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„What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?“
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„Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.“
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„Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.“
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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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„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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„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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„It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.“
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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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„Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.“
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Edmund Spenser
Author born: November 30, 1551
Author died: January 13, 1599
Nationality: English
Author Profession: Poet

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