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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.

Edmund Spenser

Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Breathe Fair Light Play Soft Spirit Sweet
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
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
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
But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Creature Enemy God Grace Love Man Mercy Service Wickedness
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Appearance Bed Bright Flame Light Morning Stars
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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King Love Spring
Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Angel Eyes Face Greatness Place Sunshine
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
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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Love Marriage Rage Sleep Suffering Wake Weakness

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.

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