"O how can beautie maister the most strong,……" — Edmund Spenser
"O how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong?"
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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 Avenging Quotes
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Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility…
— Hillary Clinton
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
— Edmund White
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
— Jane Porter
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What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea?…
— Terrence Malick
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I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor –…
— Bill Hicks
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This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an 'un-Islamic' attack by a bunch…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Your democratically elected governments continuously perpetuate injustice against my people all over the world, and your support of them makes…
— Mohamed Khan
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Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
— T.H. White
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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world,…
— Gregory Maguire
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My father hired you to protect me," Ahmed said, "not to go off chasing men." Grandma leaned forward, keeping her…
— Janet Evanovich
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