“Who will not mercie unto others show, / How can he mercy ever hope to have?”

— Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book V, Canto 2, stanza 42

About Edmund Spenser

1552 – 1599

English poet, author of the epic "The Faerie Queene".

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“I trow that countenance cannot lie, / Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.”

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“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

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“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”