Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSERFor 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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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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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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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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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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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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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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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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.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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