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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

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Easy Man Willing
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
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
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
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
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
She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Beautiful Flower Forest Growth Herself Love Relationship Rose
Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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Growth Quite Run World Worst
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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Lesson Love Teaching
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching

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

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