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.
EDMUND SPENSERTo be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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Good 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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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