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Edmund Spenser

All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Blissful Delight Garden Growth Happiness Immortal
Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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Greatness Growth Hard Hold Low Oneself Suffering
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
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Cold Desire Fire Greatness Growth Hard Love Myself
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Evening Fade Fresh Man Morning Taste
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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Content Heart Love Queen Smile Yourself
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold

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