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

Edmund Spenser

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
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
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
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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Call Man Myself Right Virtue Wrong
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Bright Eternity Fate Forever Heaven Ourselves
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
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
Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Chain Togetherness
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Curse Feed Happiness Heart Jealous Lose Misery
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Creature Enjoyment Fall Liberty
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
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner

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

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