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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.

Edmund Spenser

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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Action Blame Heaven Man Success
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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Creation Form Herself Judgement Knowledge Nature Operation World
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
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
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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Angel Desire Fashion Heart Leadership Stop Talk Teaching
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
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
All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Color Earth Flower Glory Goodness Herself Love Spring
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
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

For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.

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