Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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For 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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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