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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser

For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Eyes Joy Missing Night
A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Attraction Comfortable Eyes Grace Kind Sweet Thinking
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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Betrayal Man Manner Mindset
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
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
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Evening Fade Fresh Man Morning Taste
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality
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
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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Greatness Growth Hard Hold Low Oneself Suffering
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Creature Enjoyment Fall Liberty
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

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