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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

Edmund Spenser

All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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King Love Spring
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Breathe Fair Light Play Soft Spirit Sweet
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
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
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
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Himself Home Hypocrisy True
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Blissful Delight Garden Growth Happiness Immortal
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
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Appearance Bed Bright Flame Light Morning Stars
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
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

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