To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
EDMUND SPENSERTo be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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But times do change and move continually.
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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 if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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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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