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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

Edmund Spenser

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
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Love Reward
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Absence Cry Friendship Herself Loss
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
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
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
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Cold Desire Fire Greatness Growth Hard Love Myself
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
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
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

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