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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

Edmund Spenser

To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
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
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Cold Desire Fire Greatness Growth Hard Love Myself
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble 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
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
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
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
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Divine Hate Heart Jealous Joy Love Thinking
Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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Creation Form Herself Judgement Knowledge Nature Operation World
No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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Flower Growth Herself Sweet
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

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