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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.

Edmund Spenser

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
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Eyes Joy Missing Night
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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Compare Death Help Home Sleep
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
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
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
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Choice Freedom Goodness Praise Sick Willing
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Fall Lost Oneself Place
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right

She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.

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