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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

Edmund Spenser

Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Blissful Delight Garden Growth Happiness Immortal
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
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
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Fall Lost Oneself Place
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Heart Mindset Misery World
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Choice Freedom Goodness Praise Sick Willing
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
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
She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Beautiful Flower Forest Growth Herself Love Relationship Rose
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Bright Eternity Fate Forever Heaven Ourselves
But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Herself Justice Right Truth Win
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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Lesson Love Teaching
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
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
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
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Love Reward
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Angel Eyes Face Greatness Place Sunshine
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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Action Death Live Man Thinking Wisdom Word
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

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