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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

Edmund Spenser

And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Appearance Bed Bright Flame Light Morning Stars
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
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Creature Enjoyment Fall Liberty
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
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
But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Herself Justice Right Truth Win
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
Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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Love Marriage Rage Sleep Suffering Wake Weakness
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
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
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
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

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

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