"What more felicity can fall to creature, than……" — Edmund Spenser
"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"
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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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Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the Rose…
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
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God's first creature, which was light.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with…
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own…
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth…
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own…
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