The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
EDMUND SPENSERYet 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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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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 man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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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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