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.
EDMUND SPENSERThose 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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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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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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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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