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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Edmund Spenser

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Fashion Law Manner Right Rule Simplicity
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Creature Enjoyment Fall Liberty
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Blissful Delight Garden Growth Happiness Immortal
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Day Flower Life Mortal Pass
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Bright Eternity Fate Forever Heaven Ourselves
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
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
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
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
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Leaving Love Myself
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
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
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth

Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

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