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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.

Edmund Spenser

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
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 minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
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
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
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
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
But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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Angel Desire Fashion Heart Leadership Stop Talk Teaching
But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
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
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality

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