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

Edmund Spenser

For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Eyes Joy Missing Night
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
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
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Curse Feed Happiness Heart Jealous Lose Misery
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
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Angry Fly Fruit Wait War Word
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
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
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Color Earth Flower Glory Goodness Herself Love Spring
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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Flesh Live Man Spirit Teaching Yourself
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

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

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

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