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Edmund Spenser

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
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Bright Eternity Fate Forever Heaven Ourselves
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
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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Action Blame Heaven Man Success
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Heart Mindset Misery World
But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Chain Togetherness
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
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
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner

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