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All flesh doth frailty breed!

Edmund Spenser

For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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Compare Death Help Home Sleep
Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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Action Blame Heaven Man Success
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Easy Man Willing
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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Creation Form Herself Judgement Knowledge Nature Operation World
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
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
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
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

All flesh doth frailty breed!

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