Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
EDMUND SPENSERFor 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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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But times do change and move continually.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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