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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.

Edmund Spenser

Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Cold Desire Fire Greatness Growth Hard Love Myself
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Divine Hate Heart Jealous Joy Love Thinking
Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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Action Blame Heaven Man Success
Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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Greatness Growth Hard Hold Low Oneself Suffering
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
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 noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle 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
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy

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