Quotes from authors passed in 1599
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
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
Edmund Spenser
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser
Georg Simmel 
Muhammad Ali Jinnah 
Johnnie Ray 
Peter Cooper 
Curtis Mayfield 
David Boies 
Charles Stewart Parnell 
John Fund Authors that died in 1599