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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

Edmund Spenser

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
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
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
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
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
Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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Creation Form Herself Judgement Knowledge Nature Operation World
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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Betrayal Man Manner Mindset
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
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
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Heart Mindset Misery World
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest

So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

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