"He that strives to touch the starts, oft……" — Edmund Spenser
"He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw."
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64 Quotes by Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser has 64 quotes on this site.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Then came October, full of merry glee.
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The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
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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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Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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More Oft Quotes
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.
— William Shakespeare
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Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.
— Christopher Marlowe
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And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd
— William Shakespeare
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands…
— John Keats
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To fear the worst oft cures the worst.
— William Shakespeare
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The apparel oft proclaims the man.
— William Shakespeare
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Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And…
— George Linley
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Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in…
— John Donne
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Jesters do oft prove prophets.
— William Shakespeare
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
— Alexander Pope
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Meditate, oft. Separate thyself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and learn from…
— Edgar Cayce
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