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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.

Edmund Spenser

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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Color Earth Flower Glory Goodness Herself Love Spring
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Fashion Law Manner Right Rule Simplicity
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
For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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Call Man Myself Right Virtue Wrong
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
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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Growth Quite Run World Worst
Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Angry Fly Fruit Wait War Word
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
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
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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King Love Spring
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World

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