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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Edmund Spenser

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
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 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
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
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
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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Action Blame Heaven Man Success
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old 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
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Cold Desire Fire Greatness Growth Hard Love Myself

So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

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