Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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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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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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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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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