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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

Edmund Spenser

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Creature Enjoyment Fall Liberty
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
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
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
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Fly Happiness Thinking Wings
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
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
For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Eyes Joy Missing Night
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
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
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
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
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
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
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner

Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

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