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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion

Edmund Spenser

Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Burn Cruelty Death Hate Heart Oneself Revenge Treason
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Beautiful Flower Forest Growth Herself Love Relationship Rose
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
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
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
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
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
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Fashion Law Manner Right Rule Simplicity
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
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion

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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion

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