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The noblest mind the best contentment has.

Edmund Spenser

Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
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
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
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
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
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
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
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
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
But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Creature Enemy God Grace Love Man Mercy Service Wickedness
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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King Love Spring
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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Action Death Live Man Thinking Wisdom Word
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Fly Happiness Thinking Wings
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World

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