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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.

Edmund Spenser

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
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
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
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
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
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 will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Appearance Bed Bright Flame Light Morning Stars
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
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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Growth Quite Run World Worst
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Love Reward
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Bright Eternity Fate Forever Heaven Ourselves
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality

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