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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Edmund Spenser

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
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
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
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Action Brave Care Deserve Excellence Freedom Goodness Praise Virtue Willing
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Fall Lost Oneself Place
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
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
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
Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Angel Eyes Face Greatness Place Sunshine
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
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Divine Hate Heart Jealous Joy Love Thinking
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean

So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

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