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Edmund Spenser Quote - Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Curse Feed Happiness Heart Jealous Lose Misery
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Inspirational Love Power
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Fly Happiness Thinking Wings
Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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Greatness Growth Hard Hold Low Oneself Suffering
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality
Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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Flesh Live Man Spirit Teaching Yourself
Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Evening Fade Fresh Man Morning Taste
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
EDMUND SPENSER

Action Brave Care Deserve Excellence Freedom Goodness Praise Virtue Willing
In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
EDMUND SPENSER

Burn Cruelty Death Hate Heart Oneself Revenge Treason

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