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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.

Edmund Spenser

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Burn Cruelty Death Hate Heart Oneself Revenge Treason
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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Day Fear Feed Goodness Hell Hope Night Sorrow Speed Unknown Wasted
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 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
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
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 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
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Himself Home Hypocrisy True
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
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
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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Betrayal Man Manner Mindset
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
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
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
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
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
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain

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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