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
EDMUND SPENSERFly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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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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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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