So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
EDMUND SPENSERBut Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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 times do change and move continually.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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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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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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