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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.

Edmund Spenser

For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
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 fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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Flower Growth Herself Sweet
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
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 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
For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Eyes Joy Missing Night
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
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
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
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

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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