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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Edmund Spenser

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 man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Divine Hate Heart Jealous Joy Love Thinking
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
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
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
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Curse Feed Happiness Heart Jealous Lose Misery
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Bad Fall Goodness Himself Return Worst
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
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

Be bold, and everywhere be bold.

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