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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.

Edmund Spenser

All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Day Flower Life Mortal Pass
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
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
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Action Brave Care Deserve Excellence Freedom Goodness Praise Virtue Willing
Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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Day Fear Feed Goodness Hell Hope Night Sorrow Speed Unknown Wasted
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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Angel Desire Fashion Heart Leadership Stop Talk Teaching
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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Body Easy Gold Heart Man Mindset World
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
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
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile

And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.

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