And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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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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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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But times do change and move continually.
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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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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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 gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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