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Fretting grief the enemy of life.

Edmund Spenser

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
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
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
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Chain Togetherness
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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Body Easy Gold Heart Man Mindset World
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
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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Compare Death Help Home Sleep
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
In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Burn Cruelty Death Hate Heart Oneself Revenge Treason

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