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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.

Edmund Spenser

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
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
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
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
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
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
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
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
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
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner

All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.

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