All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
EDMUND SPENSERHasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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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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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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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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