Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
EDMUND SPENSERHasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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