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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.

Edmund Spenser

The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
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
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Absence Cry Friendship Herself Loss
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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Myself Promise Reason Season Time
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Creature Enemy God Grace Love Man Mercy Service Wickedness
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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King Love Spring
Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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Growth Quite Run World Worst
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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Body Easy Gold Heart Man Mindset World
From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Bad Fall Goodness Himself Return Worst
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom

So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.

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