"I was promised on a time - to……" — Edmund Spenser
"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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Edmund Spenser
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64 Quotes by Edmund Spenser
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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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