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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.

Edmund Spenser

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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Flower Growth Herself Sweet
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
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
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
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
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
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Blissful Delight Garden Growth Happiness Immortal
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
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
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile

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