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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

Edmund Spenser

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
Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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Love Marriage Rage Sleep Suffering Wake Weakness
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Leaving Love Myself
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
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
Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Breathe Fair Light Play Soft Spirit Sweet
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
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
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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Content Heart Love Queen Smile Yourself
Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Angry Fly Fruit Wait War Word
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy

Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

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