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Edmund Spenser Quotes - IQDb - Internet Quotes Database

Quotes from Edmund Spenser


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    Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

    Life | Death | War


    Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

    Great | Sunshine | Eye


    What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

    Fall | Liberty | Enjoy


    It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

    Good | Happy | Rich


    And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

    Stars | Touch | Straw


    Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

    Gold | Golden | Seem


    And all for love, and nothing for reward.

    Love | Reward


    The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

    Death | Genius | Stone


    He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

    Touch | Straw | Oft


    Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

    Begin | Hardest | Goodly


    I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

    Time | Rhyme | Reason


       

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