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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

Edmund Spenser

The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Blissful Delight Garden Growth Happiness Immortal
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Action Brave Care Deserve Excellence Freedom Goodness Praise Virtue Willing
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Leaving Love Myself
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Fall Lost Oneself Place
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Bright Eternity Fate Forever Heaven Ourselves
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
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Choice Freedom Goodness Praise Sick Willing
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time

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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