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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.

Edmund Spenser

But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Blissful Delight Garden Growth Happiness Immortal
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
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
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
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Color Earth Flower Glory Goodness Herself Love Spring
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
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
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
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
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
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
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
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
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
Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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Growth Quite Run World Worst
For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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Call Man Myself Right Virtue Wrong
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
But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Herself Justice Right Truth Win
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time

Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.

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