And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
EDMUND SPENSERBut Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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But times do change and move continually.
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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