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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

Edmund Spenser

And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
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
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life 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
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Creature Enemy God Grace Love Man Mercy Service Wickedness
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 there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
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
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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King Love Spring
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
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
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

Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

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