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Quotation from The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

“Vertue gives her selfe light, through darkenesse for to wade.”

Edmund Spenser (spoken by The Redcrosse Knight)

The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto I, stanza 12 (Project Gutenberg #15272 (Wauchope, 1903))

Portrait of Edmund Spenser

Una warns of hidden danger at the mouth of Error's den; the knight answers with confidence that is brave but rash.

Citation: "Vertue gives her selfe light, through darkenesse for to wade." — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto I, stanza 12 (Project Gutenberg #15272 (Wauchope, 1903)). (id the-faerie-queene-q3)

Virtues: Fortitude

Portrait: The Faerie Queene frontispiece, William Ponsonby, 16th century printer, Public domain.

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