No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
EDMUND SPENSERBut 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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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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