Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
EDMUND SPENSERMan’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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But times do change and move continually.
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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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