All flesh doth frailty breed!
EDMUND SPENSERBut 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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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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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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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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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