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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality
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
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Angry Fly Fruit Wait War Word
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
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
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
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
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
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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Growth Quite Run World Worst
Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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Content Heart Love Queen Smile Yourself
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right

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