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Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield: The worth of all men by their end esteem, And then praise, or due reproach them yield.
— Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Tags: poetry, human-nature, epic-poetry

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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
— Edmund Spenser
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
— Edmund Spenser
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
— Edmund Spenser
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
— Edmund Spenser
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
— Edmund Spenser
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