It is the mind that maketh good of ill that maketh wretch or happy rich or poor.

Edmund Spenser
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More Quotes By Edmund Spenser
  1. Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.

  2. 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.

  3. Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it, For that your self ye daily such doe see: But the trew fayre, that is the gentle wit, And vertuous mind, is much more praysd of me. For all the rest, how ever fayre it be,...

  4. I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

  5. Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

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