Edmund Spenser - Man Quotes

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That darksome cave they enter, where they find
That cursed man, low sitting on the ground,
Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.

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Ay me, how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall!

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A bold bad man, that dared to call by name
Great Gorgon, Prince of darkness and dead night.

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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known.
For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed,
As by his manners.

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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd,
As by his manners.

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What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel
Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway,
But that thereby doth find, and plainly feel,
How Mutability in them doth play
Her cruel sports, to many men's decay?

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What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware,
As to descry the crafty cunning train,
By which deceit doth mask in visor fair,
And cast her colours dyed deep in grain,
To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign,
And fitting gestures to her purpose frame,
The guiltless man with guile to entertain?

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Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

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For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.

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Why then should witless man so much misween, That nothing is, but that which he hath seene? What if in the Moones faire shining speheare? What if in every other starre unseene, Of other worldes he happily should heare? That nothing is, but that which he hath seene?

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