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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.

Edmund Spenser

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Absence Cry Friendship Herself Loss
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
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
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
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
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
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
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
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
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
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
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
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching

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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