Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
EDMUND SPENSERFor easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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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 if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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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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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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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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