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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Edmund Spenser

Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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Love Marriage Rage Sleep Suffering Wake Weakness
But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Creature Enemy God Grace Love Man Mercy Service Wickedness
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
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
She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Beautiful Flower Forest Growth Herself Love Relationship Rose
Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Chain Togetherness
Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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Greatness Growth Hard Hold Low Oneself Suffering
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Fashion Law Manner Right Rule Simplicity
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Inspirational Love Power
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Angel Eyes Face Greatness Place Sunshine

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