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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

Edmund Spenser

Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
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
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
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
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
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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Breathe Fair Light Play Soft Spirit Sweet
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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Betrayal Man Manner Mindset
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
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
No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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Flower Growth Herself Sweet
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Himself Home Hypocrisy True
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

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