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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

Edmund Spenser

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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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  And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

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  Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.

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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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  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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  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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  Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

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  But 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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  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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  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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  Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.

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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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  A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.

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  All flesh doth frailty breed!

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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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  And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.

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