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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

Edmund Spenser

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
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
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
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
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
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
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
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
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Love Reward
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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Day Fear Feed Goodness Hell Hope Night Sorrow Speed Unknown Wasted

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

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