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All flesh doth frailty breed!

Edmund Spenser

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
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
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
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
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Heart Mindset Misery World
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
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
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Color Earth Flower Glory Goodness Herself Love Spring
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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Love Marriage Rage Sleep Suffering Wake Weakness
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
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time

All flesh doth frailty breed!

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