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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion

Edmund Spenser

The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Bright Eternity Fate Forever Heaven Ourselves
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Burn Cruelty Death Hate Heart Oneself Revenge Treason
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 man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
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
But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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Angel Desire Fashion Heart Leadership Stop Talk Teaching
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Love Reward
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality
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
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Creature Enjoyment Fall Liberty
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion

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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion

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