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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

Edmund Spenser

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Choice Freedom Goodness Praise Sick Willing
Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Chain Togetherness
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Divine Hate Heart Jealous Joy Love Thinking
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
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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Lesson Love Teaching
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
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
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 there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
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 fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
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
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness

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