So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
EDMUND SPENSERWho 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.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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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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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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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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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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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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