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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

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Curse Feed Happiness Heart Jealous Lose Misery
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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Body Easy Gold Heart Man Mindset World
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
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
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
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
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest

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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