"Ill can he rule the great that cannot…" — Edmund Spenser
"Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small."
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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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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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Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the Rose…
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More Cannot Reach Quotes
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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but…
— Watchman Nee
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Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
— Sol LeWitt
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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual…
— Ken Wilber
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Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.
— Laozi
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Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct,…
— Arthur Schuster
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
— Anthony de Mello
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We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where…
— William H. Seward
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If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like…
— George Downame
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There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.
— Kate Seredy
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