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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

Edmund Spenser

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Day Flower Life Mortal Pass
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
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
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
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
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 man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Attraction Comfortable Eyes Grace Kind Sweet Thinking
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality
All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Color Earth Flower Glory Goodness Herself Love Spring

So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

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