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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.

Edmund Spenser

So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Action Brave Care Deserve Excellence Freedom Goodness Praise Virtue Willing
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Love Reward
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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Myself Promise Reason Season Time
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
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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Lesson Love Teaching
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
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
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Choice Freedom Goodness Praise Sick Willing
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
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure

So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.

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