The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
EDMUND SPENSERGood is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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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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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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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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