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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

Edmund Spenser

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Appearance Bed Bright Flame Light Morning Stars
Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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Flesh Live Man Spirit Teaching Yourself
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Himself Home Hypocrisy True
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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Compare Death Help Home Sleep
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Action Brave Care Deserve Excellence Freedom Goodness Praise Virtue Willing
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Inspirational Love Power
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Curse Feed Happiness Heart Jealous Lose Misery

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