Fretting grief the enemy of life.
EDMUND SPENSERLike as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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But 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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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