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All for love, and nothing for reward.

Edmund Spenser

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  The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

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  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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  Greatest god below the sky.

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  Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.

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  So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.

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  Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.

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  What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

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  Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

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  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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  Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.

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  The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

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  And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

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  All flesh doth frailty breed!

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  But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

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  Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.

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  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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