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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

Edmund Spenser

A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Attraction Comfortable Eyes Grace Kind Sweet Thinking
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
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Chain Togetherness
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
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
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
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
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
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
But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

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