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

Edmund Spenser

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Easy Man Willing
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
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 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
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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Flesh Live Man Spirit Teaching Yourself
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Leaving Love Myself
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
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
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
A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Attraction Comfortable Eyes Grace Kind Sweet Thinking
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent

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

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