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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

Edmund Spenser

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
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
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
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Fall Lost Oneself Place
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
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Creature Enjoyment Fall Liberty
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
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
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
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure

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