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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

Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Angel Eyes Face Greatness Place Sunshine
But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
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
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Love Reward
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
Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Appearance Bed Bright Flame Light Morning Stars
Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Evening Fade Fresh Man Morning Taste
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
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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Myself Promise Reason Season Time
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
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
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
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
Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Chain Togetherness
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
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Cold Desire Fire Greatness Growth Hard Love Myself
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
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
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
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet

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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