For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
EDMUND SPENSERBeauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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But times do change and move continually.
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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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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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