So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
EDMUND SPENSERFor deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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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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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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