Quotes from authors born in 1552
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
Edward Coke
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Edmund Spenser
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Edward Coke
Aneurin Bevan 
Nelson Rockefeller 
Nikos Kazantzakis 
Otis Criblecoblis 
Gene Wolfe 
Gary McCord 
Marcus Tullius Cicero 
Paul Verlaine