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Fretting grief the enemy of life.

Edmund Spenser

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
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
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
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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Bad Fall Goodness Himself Return Worst
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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Love Marriage Rage Sleep Suffering Wake Weakness
Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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Day Fear Feed Goodness Hell Hope Night Sorrow Speed Unknown Wasted
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
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
Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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Content Heart Love Queen Smile Yourself
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky

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