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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.

Edmund Spenser

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
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Eyes Joy Missing Night
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Fall Lost Oneself Place
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Cold Desire Fire Greatness Growth Hard Love Myself
But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Herself Justice Right Truth Win
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
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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King Love Spring
From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Bad Fall Goodness Himself Return Worst

Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.

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