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Quotation from The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

“If any strength we have, it is to ill, But all the good is Gods, both power and eke will.”

Edmund Spenser (spoken by Narrator)

The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto X, stanza 1 (Project Gutenberg #15272 (Wauchope, 1903))

Portrait of Edmund Spenser

The moral that opens the House of Holiness canto: no one may boast of a victory won by grace.

Citation: "If any strength we have, it is to ill, But all the good is Gods, both power and eke will." — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto X, stanza 1 (Project Gutenberg #15272 (Wauchope, 1903)). (id the-faerie-queene-q7)

Virtues: Humility

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

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