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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

Edmund Spenser

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
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
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
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
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Absence Cry Friendship Herself Loss
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 noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
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
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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Angel Desire Fashion Heart Leadership Stop Talk Teaching
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Leaving Love Myself
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Creature Enjoyment Fall Liberty

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

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